19670606 r-67-5RESOLUTION
R-67-5
WHEREAS, the "Potomac River Basin Report" of the
Corps of Engineers and the subsequent "Potomac Interim Report"
jointly prepared by the Federal Interdepartmental Task Force
on the Potomac and the Governors' Potomac River Advisory Com-
mittee recommended the immediate construction of the Bloomington
Dam as one of the necessary impoundments to achieve a twenty-
year margin of safe water supply for the Metropolitan Washington
Area, and
WHEREAS, Congress has appropriated in prior years the
necessary planning and engineering funds for the Bloomington
Dam, and.
WHEREAS, such planning and engineering work has reached
the stage to enable initial construction of the facility to be
undertaken during the fiscal year 1968, and
WHEREAS, the budget of the Corps of Engineers does not
propose funds to begin construction work on Bloomington Dam in
the fiscal year 1968, and
WHEREAS, it has been recognized that immediate construc-
tion of the Bloomington facility is necessary to the assurance
of adequate water supply in the Washington Metropolitan Area
during the next twenty years,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA, as follows:
1. It is hereby urged that Congress appropriate
adequate funds to enable the initial construction work
on the Bloomington Dam to be undertaken during the
fiscal year 1968.
2. That the Clerk of the Council is hereby di-
rected to send copies of this resolution to the Chair-
men of the Committees on Public Works and Appropriations
of the House and Senate and to the entire Virginia
Congressional delegation.
ADOPTED: June 6, 1967.
ATTEST:
Clerk of the Council
City of Fairfax, Virginia