Show COLUMBIA RIVER WATERS FOR UTAH armsy FARMS IS B PLAN washington lum JUT the reclamation matlon mation bureau ants to explore tile the of shifting surplus water from tile the colombia b basin sin to other parts of the west where it could be put to work accord inh I 1 0 news reports so far for it is only a paper study but athas it has a name tho the unit united d western reconnaissance report j wi NY dixon nixon reclamation director of project planning told the tu house interior appropriations subcommittee about tt during hearings on th the e departments money bill tim th great western project dix dixon n said suld jsn Is in essence Q h project to redistribute a portion of bf tile the wilter of the columbia and brin brint g benefits to 10 states r two categories western streams fall into two cate hortes tortes dixon explained the columbia river and all the rest ile he continued up in the tile northwest in tile the columbia basin you have an ample supply of water with water wasting into tile the sea regularly in california there Is a d deficiency fici ency of water east of california in the nevada arizona utah new mexico colorado and wyoming area there is a notable deficiency of water wo we have made a paper study ond and I 1 would like the record to be c clear lear that it Is a paper study of tile the possibility of diverting ome some waters from the pacific northwest and bringing them down town along the west coast through california to an ultimate junction with the colorado river deliver progressively the system would deliver water progressively all the way down picking up some hoige bus BUI surplus waters from some of the streams it intercepts and redistribute that water and the diverted water all down the west coast and finally deliver into the colorado river an amount of water which will permit the meeting of tile the mexican 10 bican water require ments this in turn would per mit the redistribution of and an increased use of water with in the colorado basin so this water that would be de brought from the pacific north west down the west coast will in turn make possible the of projects in ing that otherwise would not be possible p this th s would be so so because some of the wyoming water which must now go down stream to meet the compact require ments for the delivery of water ati lees ferry and the deliveries u under n der den the mexican water treaty could be used at home in wyom ing the same is true for such states at utah colorado nevada and others 1 Is T 1 it feasible pis i rep ben F jensen ancon m R ia T J chairman 4 the ee I 1 asked dixon if in his own canie canle can did personal opinion he thinks the project would be feasible it is practical yes dixon replied Y jensen n pressed c mm him as oc tn to whether it would be economical ly feasible and dixon answered that is a point we want to find out and on which we would ad vise yh yhan the Tn congress 81 I 1 think sir tarn that fL of 50 5 years that some thing of this will 1 undoubted lv be e done S because beca of tte the siani size and in www omo chith the project would 11 have we feel that the initial steps toward finding guta out what the i facts 4 are should ii be started 44 4 4 tow low i |