HEARINGS BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS Printed for the use of the Select Committee on National Water Resources UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1960 CONTENTS Aldrich, A. D., director, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. Beck, Arthur N., technical secretary, Alabama Water Improvement Com- Bennett, Hon. Charles, U.S. Representative from the State of Florida.. Buckman, Henry H., president, National Rivers and Harbors Congress... Cochran, Mrs. John, president, League of Women Voters, Jacksonville, Courtney, Carl, Lake and Sumter Counties Landowners Association Dail, G. E., Jr., executive director, Central and Southern Florida Flood De Grove, John M., assistant professor, University of Florida......... Engle, Dr. Robert, director of research, Florida State Board of Conserva- Page Holland, Hon. Spessard L., U.S. Senator from the State of Florida.. Hutcheson, Thomas B., chief engineer, Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.. Johnson, Lamar, facilities engineer, Southwest Florida Water Conservation Landrum, Ney C., Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association.. 2763 2680 Wakefield, John W., director, Department of Water Resources, Florida.. Wallis, W. Turner, Water Resources Control Committee, Miami-Dade Warrior-Tombigbee Development Association, Jack Warner, president__ "Water Is Our Life," excerpt from Jacksonville Journal.. Weiss, Walter, Dade County Board of Commissioners.. Wells, David E., attorney, Atlantic Coast Line Railway Co... Wilber, Dr. H. R., executive secretary, Florida Wildlife Federation. WATER RESOURCES THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1959 U.S. SENATE, SELECT COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES, Jacksonville, Fla. The select committee met at 9 a.m., pursuant to Senate Resolution 48, in the main ballroom, George Washington Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla. Committee members present: Senators Kerr (presiding), and Young of North Dakota. Also present: Senator Holland, Representative Bennett. Theodore M. Schad, staff director of the select committee, and Paul McBride, chief clerk. The CHAIRMAN. Our committee is very happy to be in Florida. When I came here I thought that Florida was the third largest State east of the Mississippi River. Your distinguished senior Senator has enlightened me in that regard and assured me that it is the second largest State east of the Mississippi River, and certainly a State abundantly blessed with almost limitless quantities of fresh water. You in Florida today are as much aware as are the people of any State in the Union-I say that here, but if I were a certain number of miles west I might say, "Except one," although you are certainly at least as aware as California-of the tremendous growth in the population of our country. The members of this committee are personally doing nothing about that at the moment. I want to say that I do not consider this population growth to be a pessimistic situation; however, with our country growing at the rate of 3 million people a year and going into a time when that increase will be much more, and with many of the areas of the Nation feeling the pinch of increasing shortages of fresh water, the Senate felt it was appropriate to make a thorough study of the water resources of our country. We hope to determine to the most accurate degree possible what the Nation's requirements will be in the two decades ahead, where the water is available with which to meet those requirements, and how it can be controlled and conserved in order that those requirements may be met. It has taken our country 352 years, figuring from Jamestown, and probably 414 years if we figured from St. Augustine-1545 you told me, did you not, Senator? Senator HOLLAND. 1565. The CHAIRMAN. 1565 and 394. Let's get that right. What is it, Milt? Senator HOLLAND. 394. The CHAIRMAN. You know, there must be an educated person out there to become a Nation of 178 million people. The exeprts in the Census Bureau tell us that that population is going to double in less |