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Water Hearing(Continued from Page 1.) phase of Che Upper Snake River Basin Report.” a study made by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers on possible use and development of laud ar.d water-in the Snnke River Basin.The report included J7 projects which are feasible and would add 1,241,500 kilowatts of electricity to the total available.If all of the projects are built,it would only satisfy the demand fmEr1forSdBisamrexc55cslaninferCcichisatinEC15j until about 19S5 vvithoni importation of new supplies, Preston said.Construction of all of the new : projects is not feasible, lie said,' so the assumption con be drawn that the area will be deficient 1:1 generating capacity to satisfy its total demands by 1970, or within a few years thereafter.Boyd Austin, Boise, jissistaeil regional director of the Bureau of Reclamation, said the Snake River study is a flexible blueprint fcr jthe next 100 years or more.Many of the projects a ml plans are not acceptable at the present^ time, be said.This is the first comprehensive study of the basin and its resources ever made, he said. Only through local knowledge and support can any project be undertak-len.Austin, summarizing the reporL for the CBIAC, said water exchanges appear to be very important in future land and irrigation developments. There appears to be sufficient water available to meetly • ; needs, lie said, hut it needs full sl; utilization.Brig. Cion. Allen V. Clark Ji.,-1 Portland, said the study marked andinCl)antaOYbeateaesmajor milestone in coordinatedcl-tul-efforts between the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation. lie snid the study wns authorized In 1954 by Congress, on a motion by Sen. Henry Dworshnk. The results of public hearings r held last inonLh in Twin Falls, Boise and Ednhu Falls will bo analyzed and forwarded to higher oil ices of the 1wo agencies, Gen. Clark sni.L After nil of the work is completed, recommcmlalions will he made for Congressional action.Clark is North Pacific Division Engineer for the Army Corps ofci«SIplt;JityDalan0- Engineers.:eC.illy59d-Dnvkl Crandall, area engineer fur the Bureau of Reclamation, said irrigation increases lead directly to increases in population. Milner Dam in central Idaho is a key poinL in future water plans, lie said, because nfler water passes that point, il is in a steep canyonliand withdrawal is difficult.lt;7□aaerr;1-210rsily:lyrs25-iVSbs;csndbs02-ItscdIIfc said there is a tn'al of ”74 individual irrigation and development projects possible in the area, which would provide for the irrigation of approximately 1,130,ODD acres of new land. The amount of new land involved would make possible 10.500 new farms, lie snUI.Preston also reported on flood control projects iri the basin, i FIoik! problems are very widespread in Jli is Bus in and almost every tributary ta Hie Snake River has a! least small valley areas that experience damage by flooding, lie said,Preston estimated that annual damage from flooding in the Upper Snake River Basin, under present conditions, is about $2,130,000. Of:* that amount, about $990,000 could; he prevented by various types of t flood control work.Uniter forecasted population growi 1 and development. Sliwc damage estimates will more than double in the next 59 years, hepredicted. *Among I lie scrums local floor! control problem areas he included American Falls, Willow-Srmd-Black-feot mid die lower Portneuf River. I R. A. Work, Portland, was chair-; man for the meeting. He is head; of the Water Supply Forecasting •! Unit n! the Soil Conservation Serv-1 ! ice.■r*‘ ; Oilier officials present were Roy,,n . W. Scheutelc. Army Corps of En-; ‘P .ginecrs; Alan Meadow croft. Fed-\c'; era I Pusser Commission; Lewis A. . in Stanley, representing the state of Oregon; Leonard B. Dworsky, J Health. Education and Welfare; tn-iis-‘reHus:-he’Prs j Don TJ. HisfT, Department of In-■ ! corior and Robert McNeil, Port-nnR.ilolayrn-or-; land, U.S. Fores: Service. McNeil ! acts as secretary for the commil-’ tCL*.ij the meeting was to e:ul jhisj^ '. afternoon with subcommittee re- \ ( j port-; and other business matters.1; I The delegates were tr tour the J ‘ : Frtod Machinery and Chemical Cfirp, plant arid ike J. R. Simplot plant west of the city taler in ihe tlav.
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Wed, Jan 11, 1961
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