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Oriel, Steven, et al. Unaddressed memorandum, “Preliminary Report on Geologic Investigations, Eastern Snake River Plain and Adjoining Mountains,” June 1973.
Parenteau, Patrick A., National Wildlife Federation. Letter to Cecil D. Andrus, February 23, 1977,
Phipps, E. Personal correspondence, September 25, 1979.
Schleicher, David. Unaddressed memorandum, “Some geologic concerns about the Teton Basin Project,” December 26, 1972.
Sparks, Felix. Memorandum to Colorado Water Conservation Board, “Consideration of FY 1980 Funding Requirements for Colorado Reclamation Projects,” March 6, 1979.
CHAPTER TWELVE: Things Fall Apart
Most of the background on the Texas Water Plan comes from coverage in the Texas Observer and from “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” in The Water Hustlers.
The Ogallala situation is well described in the Economic Development Administration’s report and in an excellent series of articles that ran in the Denver Post in 1979 (see bibliography). Desertification and its potential consequences are thoroughly covered in David Sheridan’s Desertification of the United States and in Paul Sears’s Deserts on the March. Sheridan’s book, though not as eloquent, is considerably more up-to-date and crammed with information.
The Department of Agriculture’s Salinity Control Laboratory in Riverside, California, is a great source of information on salinity, its consequences, and its avoidance. A good compendium on irrigation in general is Cantor’s World Geography of Irrigation.
Information, much of it not so up-to-date, on reservoir siltation is available from both the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation. Most libraries are almost devoid of literature on this gigantic problem. This section of the chapter draws heavily on interviews with Raphael Kazmann and Luna Leopold, and on Kazmann’s book Modern Hydrology, one of the few exceptions to the above statement.
Other important interviews for this chapter: Jan van Schilfgaarde, Jim Casey, Daniel Dreyfus, C. J. Kuiper, Joe Moore, Steven Reynolds, Herbert Grubb, Ronnie Dugger, Mary Ellen Morbeck, Bob Strand, Wayne Wyatt, Floyd Dominy, Jay Lehr, Philip Williams, Mohammed El-Ashry, George Pring, W. R. Collier.
BOOKS
Cantor, Leonard Martin. A World Geography of Irrigation. New York: Praeger, 1970.
Goldsmith, Edward, and Nicholas Hildyard. The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams. Cornwall, England: Wadebridge Ecological Center, 1985.
Graves, John. “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.” In Robert Boyle, et al., eds., The Water Hustlers. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1971.
Kazmann, Raphael. Modern Hydrology. 2nd ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
Peterson, Dean F., and A. Berry Crawford, eds. Values and Choices in the Development of the Colorado River Basin. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1978.
Peterson, Elmer T. Big Dam Foolishness. New York: Devin-Adair, 1954.
Sheridan, David. Desertification of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Council on Environmental Quality, 1981.
ARTICLES, REPORTS
Adams, Daniel B. “Last-Ditch Archaeology.” Science 83, December 1983.
Agricultural Drainage and Salt Management in the San Joaquin Valley. San Joaquin Valley Interagency Drainage Program, Fresno, California, June 1979.
Ambroggi, Robert P. “Underground Reservoirs Control the Water Cycle,” Scientific American, May 1977.
“Arid West Is Trying Drip Irrigation.” New York Times, June 28, 1983.
“Back to Basics: Mining Water Deep Below Heart of Texas.” New York Times, July 27, 1980.
Began, Ann. “National Public Water Policy: The Colorado River.” Environmental Policy Center, Washington, D.C., August 1977.
Briggs, Jean A. “There’s no synwater industry to bail us out.” Forbes, March 16, 1981.
Brown, Howard. “Wellton-Mohawk.” Memorandum to Senator Paul Fannin, Library of Congress Congressional Research Service, May 5, 1975.
“Critics Call Billion-Dollar Water Project in Arizona Wasteful.” Washington Post (undated).
“Department of State Sells U.S. Taxpayers and Mexico Down the Drain,” Environmental Policy Institute (undated).
“Desalting