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Show 328 APPROPRIATION OF WATER Customary items include: - Name and address of applicant. - Source of proposed water supply. - Nature and amount of proposed use of water direct flow diversions in cubic feet per second storage in acre-feet periods of annual use of the water total quantity of annual use. - Location and description of works for diversion, storage, and distribu- tion of water, and of places of return of unconsumed water to the stream. - Place of use of water. - Times of beginning construction of facilities and estimated times of completing construction and application of the water to beneficial use. Data pertaining to specific purposes of use are required in some of the States: - For agriculture, legal subdivisions of the land and acreage to be irrigated. - For power, nature of the works pressure head places of diversion, release, and return of water to the stream. - For storage of water, details of reservoir construction dimensions capacity area inundated uses of water feeder canal distribution facilities. - For municipal use, current population estimates of future growth. - For mining, location and character of the mines methods of supplying and utilizing water. Some further provisions in a few statutes include: - For corporate applicants, place of incorporation capital stock paid in directors. - For large projects, practicability and estimated cost of works |