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Water -- Storage -- Pacific and Mountain States -- History -- Sources

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Wallace F. Bennett papers of Colorado River Storage Project, 1962-1964

 File — Box 649: Series 1; Series 2; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197230357250], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 2 Sub-Series A
Scope and Contents note

Folder contains pamphlets, maps, press releases, and correspondence from 1962 to 1964 pertaining to different units of the Colorado River Storage Project and the Central Utah Project in the Western United States. Also in the folder is a history, compiled in 1962, of Senator Wallace F. Bennett's activities in connection with the Emery County Project in Utah, as well as a capsule history of the Upper Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States.

Dates: Other: 1962-1964

Wallace F. Bennett papers of conservation in Box Elder, Oneida and Cache counties, 1970

 File — Box 262: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230360684], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 2 Sub-Series A
Scope and Contents note

Folder contains a report with maps from 1970 that pertains to resource conservation and watersheds in Box Elder, Oneida, and Cache counties in the Western United States as well as a report from 1970 dealing with water resource development in the Great Basin Region of the Western United States.

Dates: Other: 1970

Wallace F. Bennett papers of the Dixie Project, 1963-1966

 File — Box 254: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230360601], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 2 Sub-Series A
Scope and Contents note Folder contains press releases, hearings, correspondence, congressional records, newspaper clippings, and legislative bills from 1963 to 1964 that concern different aspects of the Dixie Project in Utah. The information provided includes moving one of the dam sites for the Dixie Project eight miles downstream on the Virgin River to Warner's Ridge because of unsuitable conditions for construction at the previous site, as well as integrating the Dixie Project into the Lower Colorado River Basin...
Dates: Other: 1963-1966

Wallace F. Bennett papers on Bureau of Reclamation for Flaming Gorge, Lake Powell, Weber Basin, and Burns Creek, 1956-1965

 File — Carton 440: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197230362458], Folder: 2-10
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 3 Sub-Series B
Scope and Contents note The folders contain reports, maps, correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and legislative bills from 1956 to1965 about federal reclamation projects in the Western United States such as the Flaming Gorge Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam, and the Burns Creek Project in Idaho. Maps include the preliminary designs and locations from 1959 of the initial recreation development for Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah and the proposed boundaries...
Dates: Other: 1956-1965

Wallace F. Bennett papers on Central Utah water projects, 1963-1965

 File — Carton 446: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197230362599], Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 3 Sub-Series B
Scope and Contents note

Folder contains reports, legislative bills, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, congressional records, statements, maps, and pamphlets from 1963 to 1965 which provide information about the appropriations and benefits of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project in Utah and the progress of the Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States.

Dates: Other: 1963-1965

Wallace F. Bennett papers on Echo Park Dam, 1958, 1954, 1960-1965

 File — Carton 446: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197230362599], Folder: 13
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 3 Sub-Series B
Scope and Contents note

Folder contains reports from 1954, 1958, 1960 to1965 relating to the progress of the Colorado River Storage Project and other participating projects in the Western United States. Also included are minutes from December 15, 1960 for a Special Meeting of the Upper Colorado River Commission, the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Reclamation, the four Upper Basin states, and their Congressional Delegations in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: Other: 1958; Other: 1954; Other: 1960-1965

Wallace F. Bennett papers on Reclamation Bureau for Central Utah, Glen Canyon, and Green River, 1958

 File — Carton 420: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197230362268], Folder: 17-24
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 3 Sub-Series B
Scope and Contents note

Folders contain reports, congressional records, legislative bills, maps, and memorandums from 1955 to1958 concerning water policy and water projects in the Western United States. The majority of the materials pertain to the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 and other federal reclamation projects such as the Central Utah, Glen Canyon, and Green River projects in the Western United States.

Dates: Other: 1958