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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 %| An&you art familiar with what he did? A, yes, air* Q. . And the nature of hi® survey? j A. I m l I! Q« A® a result of that work and your familiarity with the sect on | of the state, what would you. say as to th® quantity of underground | * water avails!el for the future development of &&s Vegas, Tou may | state that in your own word»-»the quantity of water available, Q. I oouldnit say because there have been no investigations eon*» ducted as to the norma1 infultratien of water into the underground j basin bat m developed that the outgo was greater, than *he income | j of water into the basin, ft teak notice all over the valley that j there is a lowering of the hydraulic hudxoetetic pressure, but in order to determine the amount of water coming into the basin there would have to be investigations conducted as to the source* There has been a certain amount of investigation conducted over the pest ten years, which leads us to believe that the larter source of this water comes fro® the Oh rleston Mountsins*then there is some fro® the Indian Valley Basin, also from the Spring Mountain ranre and also some from Ivnnpab and a little from Sheep Mountain* The drainage area is rather large, but the area above the 7,000 foot elevation where there is any amount of precipitation Is not very large, _t amounts to perhaps a quarter million square miles, MB, SETHi There is an acute necessity for conserving the water resources of this area? A, A very acute necessity, fh& information that j have is limited It would take two or three years of a complete investigation cover'.] the sou©® and the character of the underground aquefors which bring the safer down, ft would have to be studied and mapped and all of that would take considerable time and in fact, I oan give you some Idea in Utah* They are putting up #30,000 a year in co-operation w: th the United States Gs logical Survey to investigate in Utah and this has been going on for a great many years* bast year the city, 43