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A century later the cause of the small farmer is still alive. Curiously enough, the major source of controversy is a law passed six years after the Populist heyday, the Reclamation Act of 1902. This legislation created a federal Reclamation Service to build dams, reservoirs, and canals to irrigate dry...
Electricity is another key issue for Ray and the state ?ironically so, since Washington once had far more power than it could use and still has the cheapest household rates in the country (about one-quarter the cost in New York State). In the '30s the Federal Government began...
The problem is more pressing than even that timetable suggests. The National Research Council in a report estimates-and the Bureau of Reclamation agrees-that 13 of the 330 dams in the West built and supervised by the bureau "require modification to prevent their failure" under heavy flooding conditions. The...
> Arizona: Stewart Mountain and Theodore Roosevelt Dams, both on the Salt River, need reinforcement.
Those improvements alone would cost $36.5 million. The Bureau of Reclamation has petitioned for funding, and the OMB is expected to act on the request later this month. But it is up to Congress, not the Executive Branch, to provide the money to confront the problem adequately. With another disaster...