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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the works on Carter's list appear to be more vulnerable than others. The Fruitland Mesa Dam in west-central Colorado, for instance, is designed in part to irrigate 11,940 acres and provide supplemental water for another 6,310 by damming the Gunnison River. The most direct beneficiaries of the $87 million project would be some 60 farms and ranches. In effect, these would be heavily subsidized by the Government, since they are expected to pay back only $3.8 million. (About 84% of the project's total cost would be reimbursed by fees charged...
...acknowledge that one man's "sound water-resource project" is another man's pork barrel. As it happens, one of the Congressman's public works is on Carter's list: the $1.6 billion Central Arizona Project, now about 20% complete, which would draw upon the Colorado River in the western part of the state, pump the water 2,000 ft. uphill and carry it by 400 miles of aqueducts to the outskirts of Phoenix and Tucson...
...House Interior Committee, Mo Udall has clout where it counts, and he used it. Last week he joined the contingent of irate Arizona officials, including Governor Raul Castro, who appeared in Washington to press the case for CAP. For 40 years, the state has been battling to tap the Colorado. Without the water, says Udall, with his customary flair, Tucson and Phoenix "are going to dry up and blow away...
Opponents of CAP charge that the Colorado will not be able to supply enough water to make the idea feasible; that the state should make better use of its surface and underground water; that one of the main dams-the Orme-would be built over a geological fault; and that the Yavapai Indians would be forced off their land...
...Shatz is an agency of the Department of the Interior. Founded in 1902 to irrigate the barren West, the bureau has spent $7.6 billion to dam, channel, pump and divert almost anything that flows in that vast region. The bureau's proudest monuments: the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee on the Columbia...