The Solano County Project, California: Hearings Before a Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation ... Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5927, a Bill to Authorize the Solano County Project, California, for Irrigation and Reclamation, and for Other Purposes, April 12, 13, 26, 27, 1948Considers legislation to authorize the Solano County, Calif., irrigation and reclamation project. |
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acre-feet acre-foot acres Admiral agricultural BARRETT Bay municipal utility Benicia Arsenal Berryessa Valley bill Bureau of Reclamation Cache Creek Calif California Central Valley Central Valley project Chairman city of Napa city of Vallejo committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction contract cost CRAWFORD crops D'EWART domestic East Bay municipal EDINGTON engineers farm farmers Federal figures flood control gallons per day gentlemen going GUNN interest irrigation district Island Navy Yard KERR LEMKE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Mare Island Naval MAXWELL military establishments Monticello Dam Monticello Reservoir municipal utility district municipal water MURDOCK N. D. CLARK Napa County percent POULSON present production proposed pumping Putah Creek question range lands Reclamation Bureau ROCKWELL run-off Sacramento Sacramento River SCRIBNER Solano County project Solano project source of water statement storage supply of water underground VAUGHN water supply water users WELCH
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Page 141 - States declares that congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting, the territory and other property belonging to the United States.
Page 142 - Inasmuch as the Colorado River has ceased to be navigable for commerce and the reservation of its waters for navigation would seriously limit the development of its Basin, the use of its waters for purposes of navigation shall be subservient to the uses of such waters for domestic, agricultural and power purposes.
Page 143 - First, for river regulation, improvement of navigation, and flood control ; second, for irrigation and domestic uses and satisfaction of present perfected rights in pursuance of Article VIII of said Colorado River compact ; and third, for power.
Page 52 - Views and Recommendations of the State of California on Proposed Report of the Secretary of the Interior entitled "The Colorado River...
Page 141 - But it is useless to pursue the inquiry further in this direction. It is enough for the purposes of this case that each state has full jurisdiction over the lands within its borders, including the beds of streams and other waters.
Page 181 - I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the city council of the city of Napa at a...
Page 1 - Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) within the Pacific Northwest which, though allocated to irrigation, is beyond the ability of the irrigation water users to repay within the repayment period prescribed by law...
Page 142 - The act declares that the authority to construct the dam and reservoir is conferred, among other things, for the purpose of 'improving navigation and regulating the flow of the river.
Page 142 - And the fact that purposes other than navigation will also be served could not invalidate the exercise of the authority conferred, even if those other purposes would not alone have justified an exercise of Congressional power.
Page 140 - Turning now to the controversy as here presented, it is whether Kansas has a right to the continuous flow of the waters of the Arkansas River, as that flow existed before any human interference therewith, or Colorado the right to appropriate the waters of that stream so as to prevent that continuous flow, or that the amount of the flow is subject to the superior authority and supervisory control of the United States.