Milton N. Nathanson papers
- Series 1. Department of Interior, 1855-1983
- Series 2. Private Consulting, 1920-1995
- Series 3. Updating the Hoover Dam Documents, 1900-1990
- Series 4. Colorado River Board of California, 1964-1993
Series 1. Department of Interior 1855-1983
Sub-Series 1.1. Arizona versus California 1923-1983
Finding Committee Correspondence 1968
Draft Stipulation 1966
Department of Interior Solicitor Statements 1968
United States Objections 1967
Stipulation of Settlement 1972
Department of Interior Correspondence and Notes 1967
Valley Division, Yuma Project 1967
Reservation Division, Yuma Project, Arizona 1967
Yuma Mesa Division, Gila Reclamation Project, Arizona 1967
Correspondence and Filing Suggestions 1967
Nevada Objections 1967
Engineering Analysis of Colorado River Water Wasted into the Salton Sea, 1956
Correspondence and Tables 1967
Palo Verde's Answer to Nevada and Arizona 1969
Palo Verde's Answer to the United States 1969
California's Answer to the United States 1966-1969
Imperial Irrigation District's Answer to the United States and Arizona 1969
Imperial Irrigation District Water Diversion Correspondence and Tables 1923-1969
Correspondence 1964-1965
Statements and Summaries circa 1963-1965
Case Law and Journal Articles 1964-1983
Sub-Series 1.2. Central Arizona Project 1944-1977
Report on Central Arizona Project Prepared for Central Arizona Project Association Re-examination Committee by W. S. Gookin and Associates 1960
Report on Central Arizona Project Prepared for Central Arizona Project Association Re-examination Committee by W. S. Gookin and AssociatesCorrespondence 1960-1961
United States Secretary of Interior Correspondence 1965
Contracts - United States and Arizona 1944-1961
Contracts - United States and Central Arizona Water Conservation District 1972
Contracts - United States, Central Arizona Water Conservation District and Agricultural Subcontractor 1972
Contracts - United States, Central Arizona Water Conservation District and Municipal and Industrial Subcontractor 1927-1974
Contracts - United States, Central Arizona Water Conservation District and Industrial Subcontractor 1974
Contracts - Central Arizona Water Conservation District Resolution 1972-1973
Contracts - Repayment of Costs Correspondence 1971-1974
Contracts - Subcontractor Correspondence 1973-1974
Contracts - Proposed Arizona Legislation 1974
Indian Water Allocation - Correspondence 1964-1975
"Notice of Proposed Allocation of Project Water for Indian Irrigation Use, " 1975
Proposed Legislation 1975
News Clippings 1972-1974
City of Phoenix Effluent Correspondence 1963-1975
The Central Arizona Project: A Staff Report to the Metropolitan Utilities Management Agency Board and the Mayor and Council of the City of Tucson Comments and Correspondence 1974
Statement of Congressman Morris K. Udall to Departmental Water Projects Review Team, 1977
Correspondence 1967-1972
Publications 1968-circa 1971
News Release and Clippings 1974-1975
"Legislative History of the Colorado River Basin Project Act Authorizing Construction of the Central Arizona Project and Others," 1967
"Legislative History of the Colorado River Basin Project Act Authorizing Construction of the Central Arizona Project and Others" (continued) 1968
"Appendix A to Legislative History of the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 9/30/68," 1967-1968
Sub-Series 1.3. Colorado River Basin Project Operating and Filling Criteria 1960-1977
"Explanation of Proposed Procedures for Computing Deficiencies in Firm Power Generation at Hoover Dam During Filling of Colorado River Storage Project Reservoirs," 1961
"General Principles to Govern, and Operating Criteria for, Glen Canyon Reservoir (Lake Powell) and Lake Mead During the Lake Powell Filling Period," 1962
"Questions Re. Glen Canyon Filling Criteria," 1962
Glen Canyon Filing Criteria - Correspondence 1960-1965
"Blue Envelope" Correspondence, 1965-1971
Colorado River Basin Operating Criteria - Correspondence 1968-1976
Correspondence and Notes 1977
Advisory Travel Reports 1961-1970
Glen Canyon Filling Criteria Meetings' Notes, Statements, and Transcripts 1960-1964
Colorado River Basin Operating Criteria Meetings' Notes, Itineraries and Addresses 1968-1969
"Colorado River Basin Project (Operating Criteria)" File 1969-1971
Department of Interior News Releases 1960-1970
News Clippings 1976
Sub-Series 1.4. Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act 1952-1975
International Treaties Correspondence 1965-1975
Land Acquisitions Correspondence 1973-1974
Ground Water Correspondence 1964-1975
Correspondence and Notes 1952-1975
"Recommendations on the Colorado River Salinity Problem," 1965
Statements Before the House Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources 1974
"Arizona's Ground Water Law: Preliminary Comments," 1975
Imperial Dam Advisory Board Minutes 1974
Legal Aspects of Ground Water Problems by Wells A. Hutchins circa 1956
A Brief Description and History of the Colorado River by Maurice N. Langley 1972
The Agreement for a Permanent and Definitive Solution to the Colorado River Salinity Problem with Mexico by Herbert Brownell, 1973
The International Problem of the Salinity of the Lower Colorado River and the Agreement with Mexico for Its Solution by Delbert McNealy 1974
The 1973 Agreement on Colorado River Salinity Between the United States and Mexico by M. B. Holburt 1977
Options for Resolution of the United States-Mexico Colorado River Salinity Problem, Federal Interagency Task Force 1972
Resolution of the United States-Mexico Colorado River Salinity Problem: Special Report on Negotiations with Involved Water User Organizations in United States , United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 1973
Department of Interior News Releases 1965-1972
Legislation 1968-1974
Sub-Series 1.5. Reclamation Law Acreage Limitation 1930-1974
Excess Lands Correspondence 1930-1968
United States Versus Imperial Irrigation District Litigation Correspondence 1971
Ben Yellen Litigation Correspondence 1970-1973
United States Versus Tulare Lake Canal Company Litigation Correspondence 1972
Gary Weatherford Correspondence 1966-1971
"Information on Imperial Valley Acreage Limitation Problem," 1967
Department of Interior Meeting Roster 1969
Notes circa 1966-1974
United States vs. Imperial Irrigation District - Opinion 1971-1973
United States vs. Imperial Irrigation District - Order Allowing Intervention 1973
United States vs. Imperial Irrigation District - Appellants' Brief 1972
Ben Yellen, et al. Versus Rogers C. B. Morton, et al. circa 1973
Legislation 1970
Case Law and Decision 1964-1966
Periodicals and News Clippings 1972-1974
Sub-Series 1.6. Colorado River Basin Power Plants and Energy Issues 1928-1980
Department of Interior Correspondence 1928-1929
The Economics of the Boulder Canyon Project as Related to Community Development in the Southwest by E. F. Scattergood 1929
Department of Interior Power Policy 1953
Statement by Clarence A. Davis Before the Subcommittee of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee 1954
Navajo Power Project - "Information on Permits and Leases for Business Enterprises and Residences in Page, Arizona" circa 1956
Navajo Power Project - Legal and Negotiating Committee Meeting Notes 1970
Navajo Power Project - Coordinating Committee Meeting Notes 1970
Navajo Power Project - "Proposed Navajo Project" File 1969
Navajo Power Project - "Legal Issues" File 1966-1973
Navajo Power Project - "Budget Memo--Central Arizona Project Power" File 1969
Navajo Power Project - "Background and Status--Navajo Project" File 1971
Navajo Power Project - "Summary--Contracts Interim Sale" File circa 1970
Navajo Power Project - "Navajo Station Coal Supply Agreement" File 1969
Navajo Power Project - "Supplemental Statement of Co-Tenancy Agreement" File circa 1969
Navajo Power Project - "Southern Transmission Progress Report" File 1972
Navajo Power Project - "Federal Contracts and Agreements for Coal-Fired and Thermal-Electric Powerplants--Colorado Plateau" File 1969-1970
Navajo Power Project - "Coordinating Committee" File 1972
Navajo Power Project - "Employment at Page" File 1972
Navajo Power Project - "Joint Navajo Project Managers' Report" File 1972
Navajo Power Project - Correspondence 1965-1974
Department of Interior Correspondence 1936
"Standing to Sue" Essay circa 1970
"Spring 1966 Letters of Understanding" File 1966
Otter Tail Power Company Antitrust Case Correspondence 1973
Report on Water for Energy in the Lower Colorado River Basin Correspondence, News Release, and Clippings 1974-1975
Statistical Compilation of Storage Dams and Reservoirs on Bureau of Reclamation Projects, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 1972
Statistical Compilation of Diversion Dams on Bureau of Reclamation Projects, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 1972
Summaries of Bureau of Reclamation Carriage Facilities and Pumping Stations 1972
Correspondence and PLS Listing: Power Facilities Operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 1973-1974
Understanding the "National Energy Dilemma", United States Senate Joint Committee on Atomic Energy 1973
General Power Contract Provisions 1961-1975
Arleigh B. West Statement at Glen Canyon Power Plant Meeting 1964
Kenneth E. Payne Address at the Southwest Energy Conference 1974
We Need More Nuclear Power by Irving S. Shapiro 1980
Colorado River Water Users Association Meeting Brochures, News Releases and Presentation 1974
"Water Requirements for Lower Colorado Basin Energy Needs" Symposium Announcement and Brochure 1975
Directory of Public Power, January-February 1973
"Cost Allocation for Multiple-Purpose Water Projects" by Newcomb B. Bennett 1956
Department of Interior Correspondence 1974-1975
Department of Interior Publications 1954-1973
News Clippings 1973-1974
Sub-Series 1.7. Colorado River Basin Tribal Water Rights Issues 1855-1977
Correspondence 1960-1976
Federal Encroachment on Indian Water Rights and the Impairment of Reservation Development by William H. Veeder 1969
A Study of Administrative Conflicts of Interest in the Protection of Indian Natural Resources, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1971
"Preparation of Indian Wills" by William M. Wirtz 1974
Reid Peyton Chambers Statement to the Indian Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs 1975
"Practical Aspects of Western Water Problems From Standpoint of Private Practitioner" by Clyde O. Martz circa 1975
Excerpt From "Report Upon the Indian Tribes" by A. W. Whipple, Thomas Ewbank, and William M. Turner 1855
Proposed Legislation 1977
Department of Interior Fact Sheet and News Releases 1973-1975
Publications 1971-1972
Journal Articles 1960-1974
News Clippings 1973-1975
Sub-Series 1.8. California Water and Irrigation Districts circa 1954-1974
All-American Canal Project Correspondence circa 1954
City of San Diego and Coachella Valley Irrigation District Correspondence 1960
Palo Verde Irrigation District Correspondence 1974
Metropolitan Water District Correspondence 1966
Metropolitan Water District Contract 1966
Correspondence and Elmer F. Bennet and Edmund G. Brown Addresses to the Irrigation Districts Association of California 1957-1958
Lands Division Journal, July, 1964
Case Law and Journal Articles, circa 1965
Sub-Series 1.9. Publications and Ephemera 1950-1974
The Water Industry by Harris, Upham and Company 1965
Federal Property Boundary Survey Problems by Clark L. Gumm 1968
A Review of the 1944 Water Treaty Operations Relating to the Colorado Riverby J. F. Friedkin 1969
"Bureau of Reclamation: Origin and Background," circa 1970
Department of Interior News Release 1965
Bureau of Reclamation Brochures 1950-1972
Colorado River Brochures circa 1963-1974
California Water Brochures circa 1961-1972
Dam and Power Plant Brochures 1950-1974
Desalination and Cloud Seeding Brochures 1962-1972
Correspondence and Notes circa 1965-1973
Periodicals 1958-1974
News Clippings 1973-1974
Series 2. Private Consulting 1920-1995
Sub-Series 2.1. Department of Interior 1963-1983
Arizona vs. California - Present Perfected Rights Correspondence 1973-1976
Arizona vs. California - Present Perfected Rights Summary Statement 1976
Colorado River Basin Operating Criteria - Correspondence 1969-1976
Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects: Sixth Annual Report, United States Department of the Interior 1963
Lower Colorado River Management Program Correspondence 1976
United States and Coachella Valley County Water District - Repayment Contract 1975-1978
San Diego Gas and Electric Company Water Diversion and Sundesert Nuclear Power Plant 1971-1978
Salt River Project File 1975
Virgin River File 1970-1983
Publications 1977-1979
Sub-Series 2.2. Coachella Valley Water District 1920-1994
Sub-Series 2.2.1. All-American Canal 1928-1992
Lining - Correspondence 1975-1992
Lining - Notes circa 1976-1990
"Canal Lining Update," May 1989
Correspondence and Final Environmental Assessment: Coachella Canal In-Place Lining Prototype, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 1988
All-American Canal Lining Project: Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation and Imperial Irrigation District 1991
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act Legislation, 1974
Correspondence 1929-1992
Boulder Canyon Project Contract Validation Lawsuit 1933-1934
All-American Canal Supplemental Contract 1952-1955
All-American Canal Rehabilitation Proposal and Contract: Coachella Valley County Water District 1961-1963
Reclamation Reform Act Amendatory Contract: Coachella Valley Water District 1984
"Colorado River Commission Report," 1928
Key Pittman Brief 1929
Boulder Canyon Project Contract Legislation 1930
"Imperial Irrigation District Official Notice of Sale of Electric Revenue Bonds," 1949
"Inventory of Problems of All-American Canal System," 1950
Imperial Irrigation District Crop Production Report 1985
News Clippings 1930-1932
Sub-Series 2.2.2. Validity of Compromise Agreement Between Imperial Irrigation District and Coachella Valley Water District 1930-1993
Correspondence, News Clippings and Notes 1930-1933
Correspondence 1930-1993
Notes circa 1985-1992
News Clippings 1932
Sub-Series 2.2.3. Water Conservation and Transfer Between Imperial Irrigation District and Metropolitan Water District 1958-1989
Transfers of Colorado River Water Within California Correspondence and Notes 1985
Memorandum of Understanding Correspondence 1985
Imperial Irrigation District Water Conservation 1979-1988
Environmental Impact Report - Correspondence 1985-1986
Environmental Impact Report - Notes 1986
Notice of Determination 1986
Meyers Opinion 1977-1988
Weinberg Opinion Correspondence 1986-1987
Transfer Agreements 1988-1989
Agreements - Correspondence 1988-1989
Agreements - Notes circa 1988-1989
Water Conservation Opportunities: Imperial Irrigation District Special Report, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 1984
Imperial Irrigation District Draft Water Conservation Plan prepared by D.A. Twogood, et al. 1985
Water Requirements and Availability Study for Imperial Irrigation District, Parson Water Resources, Inc. 1985
Colorado River Board of California Meeting Agenda 1990
Case Law circa 1985-1990
Journal Articles 1963-1988
Publications and News Clippings 1958-1989
Sub-Series 2.2.4. Bureau of Reclamation Right-of-Ways 1923-1987
Three Flags Ranch 1984-1987
Ritter-Bunn Decision 1923-1983
Correspondence 1952-1979
Case Law circa 1985
Sub-Series 2.2.5. Water Supply Agreement Between Imperial Irrigation District and International Technology Corporation 1987
Correspondence 1987
Notes 1987
Colorado River Water Supply Compromise Agreement With Imperial Irrigation District Correspondence 1991
Sub-Series 2.2.6. Colorado River Water Charges to Metropolitan Water District 1985
Correspondence 1985
Notes circa 1985
Sub-Series 2.2.7. Bureau of Reclamation 1929-1934
Colorado River Storage File 1929
Colorado River Sale of Power and Water Files 1929-1931
Sale of Power to Metropolitan Water District File 1930-1932
Sale of Power to City of Los Angeles and Southern California Edison Company 1930
Sale of Power to Palo Verde Irrigation District File 1930-1932
Imperial Irrigation District File 1930-1934
Sub-Series 2.2.8. Colorado River Water Allocation for Metropolitan Water District 1930-1987
Correspondence 1930-1987
Metropolitan Water District Sale of Power to Citizens Utilities Company Correspondence 1938
"Seven Party Water Agreement: History of Accumulative Storage Provision," undated
Colorado River Board of California Meeting Agenda 1991
Colorado River Basin Resolution and Law Excerpt 1930-1974
Sub-Series 2.2.9. Palo Verde Irrigation District 1931-1993
Location of Lower Palo Verde Mesa Correspondence 1985
Correspondence and Press Release 1965-1967
Correspondence 1990-1993
"History of the Palo Verde Valley," 1978
Notes, Journal Articles, and Maps circa 1931-1985
Imperial Irrigation District Summary of Water Diversions 1984
Sub-Series 2.2.10. Excess Colorado River Water Desert Storage 1979-1988
Correspondence 1979-1988
Sub-Series 2.2.11. East Mesa Pilot Groundwater Recovery Well Project 1990-1991
Correspondence 1990
Correspondence and Notes 1991
Sub-Series 2.2.12. Reclamation Reform Act 1982-1991
Correspondence 1985-1991
Case Law 1982-1988
Journal Articles and News Clippings 1984-1990
Sub-Series 2.2.13. Reclamation Land Withdrawals 1920-1989
Correspondence 1920-1985
Maps and Tables circa 1964-1985
Agreement and Case Law circa 1980-1989
Issue Papers and Journal Articles circa 1965-1984
Sub-Series 2.2.14. Tribal Water Rights Issues circa 1975-1988
Case Law and Court Transcripts circa 1975-1985
Case Law 1988
News Clippings 1976-1983
Sub-Series 2.2.15. Proposed Colorado River Basin Storage Act Amendment 1990
Correspondence 1990
Hearing Statements and Testimony 1990
Correspondence and On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency: Special Technical Report, Coachella Valley Water District, Boyle Engineering 1993
Correspondence and Special Critique On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency: Special Technical Report, Coachella Valley Water District, JMLord, Incorporated 1993
Bureau of Reclamation Correspondence, 1992-1993
"Water Use Assessment: Imperial Irrigation District and Coachella Valley Water District," 1993
Sub-Series 2.2.16. Salton Sea 1992-1994
The Salton Sea: A Review of the Sea's History with an Outline of Several Proposals to "Save" it and Some Suggestions About Preserving its Beneficial Uses, Coachella Valley Water District 1992
Salton Sea Authority Agreement and Meeting Minutes 1993
Salton Sea Fact Sheet, Symposium Brochure, and News Clippings 1993-1994
Sub-Series 2.2.17. Colorado River Basin Endangered Fishes 1993
Overview of the Proposed Critical Habitat for the Colorado River Endangered Fishes, by Henry R. Maddux, et al. 1993
Correspondence and Summary: Habitat Requirements of the Endangered Fishes of the Colorado River Basin, by Thomas R. Haglund, et al. 1993
Draft Economic Analysis of Proposed Critical Habitat in the Colorado River Basin for the Razorback Sucker, Humpback Chub, Colorado Squawfish, and Bonytail, Volume I by David S. Brookshire, et al. 1993
Sub-Series 2.2.18. Other 1926-1994
"Comments on and Proposed Revisions to Draft Regulations for Administering Entitlements to Colorado River Water in the Lower Colorado River Basin," 1994
Correspondence 1989-1992
Imperial Irrigation District Correspondence and Annual Reports 1926-1949
Metropolitan Water District Publications circa 1985-1993
John H. Lauten Addresses 1973-1974
Maps and Diagrams circa 1967-1985
Publications and Brochures 1975-1985
News Clippings 1975-1993
Sub-Series 2.3. City of Henderson, Nevada 1951-1990
Correspondence 1965-1990
Contracts and Agreements 1951-1967
Notes circa 1989
Sub-Series 2.4. Publications and Ephemera 1966-1995
Mono Lake File 1976-1983
Pupfish File 1974-1975
Water Conservation File 1975-1984
Flood Control File 1984-1990
Hydroelectric Power File circa 1979-1990
Environmental Issues File 1975-1990
Peripheral Canal File circa 1975-1977
"Project Independence: The Strategic Role of the Great Rockies" Conference File 1975
John D. Vanderhoof Address 1973
Thomas M. Stetson Address 1983
Groundwater/ Surface Water Issues in the Interstate Context: The Bureau of Reclamation's Draft Colorado River Operation Management Regulations by David E. Lindgren 1995
Accounting for Water Use Along the Colorado River, Hoover Dam to Mexico by Sandra J. Owen-Joyce circa 1990
"The Yuma Desalting Plant: A Status Report," 1989
"Overview of the Law of the River," 1990
The Colorado: Still a Problem River by Myron B. Holburt circa 1975
Correspondence circa 1975-1993
Maps 1969-1979
Department of Interior Press Releases 1973-1980
Periodicals 1978-1994
Tour and Symposium Itineraries 1979-1990
Publications and Brochures circa 1977-1985
Case Law and Journal Articles circa 1975-1991
The Register, "Special Report: The Water Squeeze" Newspaper Section, November 6 1983
The Orange County Register 1986-1988
News Clippings 1966-1993
The Law of the River Files circa 1975-1980
Colorado River Compact Files circa 1923-1980
Boulder Canyon Project Act Files circa 1975-1980
California Seven Party Project Act Files circa 1975-1980
Water Delivery Contracts for Colorado River Water in the Lower Colorado River Basin Files circa 1975-1980
The Mexican Water Treaty Files circa 1975-1980
The Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Files circa 1975-1980
The Colorado River Storage Project Act" Files circa 1975-1980
Arizona v. California Files circa 1975-1980
The Supreme Court Decree in Arizona v. California Files circa 1975-1980
Present Perfected Rights Files circa 1975-1980
Filling Criteria Files circa 1975-1980
The Colorado River Basin Project Act Files circa 1975-1980
Operating Criteria Files circa 1975-1980
Mexican Salinity Problems Files circa 1975-1980
The Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act Files circa 1975-1980
Storage of Water on Gila River, Arizona by Joseph B. Lippincott 1900
California Water Rights to the Colorado River by Milton N. Nathanson 1985
"Extracts From The Hoover Dam Documents by Ray L. Wilbur and Northcutt Ely," 1948
Correspondence and White House Water Policy Message 1978
Correspondence 1973-1975
Notes circa 1975
Legislation 1923-1968
Periodicals 1978
Maps and Tables 1962-1989
Book Excerpts and Journal Articles 1975-1988
New Clippings 1990
Summary of Board Polices 1978
The Colorado River Basin--Its Water Resources and Current Problems" by Myron B. Holburt 1974
International Problems of the Colorado River by Myron B. Holburt 1974
The 1983 High Flows on the Colorado River and Their Aftermath by Myron B. Holburt 1984
"Water Resources Conservation and Efficiency Act" File 1982
Senate Bill 343 File 1983
Perepheral Canal Proposition File 1982
Central Arizon Project File 1981-1982
"Water Quality Act" File 1988
Colorado River Annual Operating Plan File 1989-1990
Colorado River Salinity Control File 1988-1993
Correspondence 1982-1988
Annual Reports 1964-1981
Annual Report Appendix 1973
Publications and Brochures 1967-1987
Notices and Press Releases 1988-1990
Executive Director's Monthly Reports 1989-1993
Meeting Announcements, Agendas, and Minutes 1989-1993
News Clippings circa 1976