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Transcopy sent to Del Mar EDMUND MUTH ASSISTANT STATE ENGINEER i>GH A. 8 HAM BERGER SEP ll r c, a P. N. DONDERO DEPUTY STATE ENGINEER FIELD DEPUTY STATE ENGINEER C. E. THIEX OFFICE MANAGER DONALD K. JEWETT OFFICE ENGINEER STATE OF NEVADA ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE STATE ENGINEER OFFICE OF STATE ENGINEER HERBERT E. WINCHESTER •ROUND WATER GEOLOGIST CARSON CITY. NEVADA Mr. Thomas A. Campbell, President, Board of Directors, Las Vegas Valley Water District 135 S. 4th Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. August 27, 1953 Dear Mr. Campbell: This will acknowledge with thanks receipt of Bond Issue Election announcement, together with list of proposed improvements and detailed estimate of cost in connection with the proposed program by the Las Vegas Valley Water District. 1953* In my opinion this is the most important issue ever put before the people of Las Vegas Valley. The outcome of this election may well determine the future destiny of that area. any area, the most Important one being an adequate source of water. No city nor area can grow much beyond the available water supply. It Is, in all cases, the limiting value. tion with the United States Geological Survey, made a detailed ground- water study In the Las Vega3 Valley. The report of this study Is found in "Water Resources Bulletin No. 5" published by the State of Nevada. This study found that the only source of ground water was precipitation on the higher areas of the Spring and Sheep mountains, and that estimates based on the available precipitation data, and checked with Information from all available geologic and hydrologic data, 3how that the annual recharge of the ground-water reservoir in Las Vegas Valley is between 30*000 and 35*000 acre-feet. ground water was being pumped from storage; that is, more water was being taken from the reservoirs than Is entering them from the recharge areas and that the water level decline has, to a great extent, resulted from overpumping. Estimates of the discharge from wells, springs and upward leakage, from 19^5 through 1952, are as follows: It is noticed that the bond election is set for September 30, There are many factors necessary for the continuing growth of During the years of 19^5* 19^6 and 19^7 ray office, in coopera- All available data indicated that starting in the year 1946 00 jllivjh “niadrtv