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Show Colorado River Report Twenty billion kilowatt hours of electric power are going to waste annually on the Colorado river system, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation reports to Washington Wash-ington after an extensive study of the river's resources. Two and one-half million acres of land could be irrigated if the Colorado was brought under control, the report disclosed. There are approximately 400 miles of the Colorado in Utah. The report carrying some 400 pages, is titled: "The Colorado River A Natural Menace Becomes Be-comes a National Resource." Taking a long view of the potentialities po-tentialities of the mighty river, the Reclamation Bureau visions the river channel turned ' into a great stairway of reservoirs extending ex-tending up straem from Parker Dam on the boundry between Arizona and California, and on through Arizona, Nevada. Utah and into Wyoming and Colorado. In most cases each dam would back reservoir water to the toe of the dam next upstream. Branches of the stairway would reach up the San Juan, Green and Yampa rivers. |