ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

 

HCM2009: floodwater harvesting; study; urging Congress

Sponsor:  Representative Dunn, LD 13

Committee on Land & Agriculture

Overview

Urges the United States Congress to fund a technological and feasibility study of the development of a diversion dam and pipeline to harvest floodwater from the Mississippi River to replenish the Colorado River and prevent flood damage along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

History

The Mississippi River flows 2,350 miles from its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota through the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River and is approximately 100 miles longer. The river discharges 593,003 cubic feet of water per second into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River drains all or parts of 32 states and two Canadian provinces, about 40% of the continental United States totaling an area of 1.2 million square miles (National Park Service). 

Provisions

1.    ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteUrges the United States Congress to fund a technological and feasibility study to develop a diversion dam and pipeline to:

a)    Harvest floodwater from the Mississippi River to replenish the Colorado River; and

b)    Prevent flood damage along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

2.    Instructs Congress to implement the diversion dam and pipeline as a partial solution to the water supply shortage in Lake Powell and Lake mead and the flood damage that occurs along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

3.    Instruct the Arizona Secretary of State to transmit copies of this HCM to the following officials:

a)    The President of the U.S. Senate;

b)    The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives;

c)    The Governors of the Missouri and Mississippi river states of Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Tennessee; and

d)    Each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.

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