Word: projects
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...earthquake could shatter the dam, releasing a reservoir 40 miles long containing 736 billion gallons of water. The terrifying result: a 100 ft. high wall of water that would rupture other dams downstream and all but drown the Sacramento area. At last week's federal hearing on the project, Civil Engineer Harry Cedergren said that the collapse of the Auburn could "kill up to 1 million people, flood 1,000 square miles of developed land, inundate five military installations and cause $40 or $50 billion in property damage...
...CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT. Congressman Morris Udall, another dedicated conservationist, is urbane enough to 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...
...Governor Arthur Link even succeeded in persuading Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus, an old friend, to come. North Dakota's three-man congressional delegation was there, as were most state officials and nearly the entire state legislature, which made the 100-mile trip from Bismarck to attend. Backing the project, State Representative Michael Unhjem bitterly asked: "I wonder if Georgia ever had a drought during...
Opponents of the Garrison say that in order to bring water to its 250,000 acres, the project would disrupt 220,000 acres now being farmed. Runoff water from the irrigated areas would leach salty chemicals from the soil and carry them into the Souris and Red rivers. Richard Madson, a local representative of the Audubon Society, calls the dispute over the Garrison "a classic test of whether the bureaucracy can be slowed down once it's moving...
...explorer, the Marquis de Montcalm, advised King Louis XV that a waterway linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers should be built to promote trade. Phooey said Louie. But the idea remained alive, and in 1870 a U.S. Government study was completed by an esteemed engineer who concluded that the project was technically feasible but asked, "From whence cometh the commerce" to justify it? More studies were done-in 1880, 1890, 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1938-but always the answer was the same: "Whence cometh...