Legal Aspects of Water Storage for Flow Augmentation |
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32 Stat 68 Stat 70 Stat Act of August AGENCY OWNING RIGHT application appropriated water Appurtenances to Land authority beneficial Brazos River Authority Bureau of Reclamation CITIES OR AGENCIES Colo conduit Cong construction contract Control of Dilution Corps of Engineers dilution water eminent domain federal reservoirs Flood Control Act flow interest irrigation legislation license LOCATION WATER SUPPLY low-flow augmentation METHOD OF WATER municipal Natural channel natural stream navigational servitude Okla Oklahoma operation pipeline PROJECT LOCATION WATER Public Utilities Act quality purposes Reclamation Act reclamation law reclamation projects regulation RIGHT CITIES Rights as Appurtenances riparian owner riparian rights River Secretary statute storage space stored water Supp supply purposes SUPPLY STORAGE AC surplus water Texas United Virginia Elec Wallisville Water Dist water law Water Pollution Water Pollution Control Water Power water quality control water quality storage water rights water supply storage WATER TRANSPORTATION NATURAL
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Page 39 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 56 - Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of water power development, and for other beneficial public uses, including recreational purposes...
Page 32 - That nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 213 - Congress to recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities and rights of the States in preventing and controlling water pollution...
Page 32 - ... the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act. shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof...
Page 147 - That the project adopted, including the maps, plans, and specifications, shall be such as in the judgment of the Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of waterpower development, and for other beneficial public uses...
Page 55 - An Act to create a Federal Power Commission ; to provide for the improvement of navigation ; the development of water power ; the use of the public lands in relation thereto ; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes," and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 55 - States, or upon any part of the public lands and reservations of the United States (including the Territories), or for the purpose of utilizing the surplus water or water power from any Government dam...
Page 216 - In establishing such standards the Secretary, the Hearing Board, or the appropriate State authority shall take into consideration their use and value for public water supplies, propagation of fish and wildlife, recreational purposes, and agricultural, industrial, and other legitimate uses.