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Show so as to hold the water at no greater height than is necessary for the diversion of the amount of water actually required for the irrigation of the lands of said district and that such brush weir, or dam, and the materials composing the same, shall be held and maintained in place by a system of piling driven through, and erected upon the crest of said rock dam or as near thereto as practicable; if necessary said system of piling to be used in conjunction with certain guy ropes and ties made fast to certain dolphin anchors erected in said river immediately above said rock dam; the height to which the dam is to be maintained and the extent of said system of piling to be subject to control by the Project Manager of the Yuma Project, and the District further promises, agrees and undertakes to remove all of said brush dam, or weir, from out of said river on, or prior to July 1st, 1923, and at any other time between said July 1st, 1922 and July 1st, 1923, that Porter J. Preston, Project Manager of the Yuma Project of the United States Reclamation Service, or William Wisener, President of the Association, or Major E. D. Ardery, District Engineer, U.S.A., or their successors in office, shall deem the maintenance of said dam to, in any way, endanger any of the works of said Yuma Project, or any of the lands or property of the Association, or its shareholders and constituent members, or any land within said Yuma Project on either side of said Colorado River; and the District hereby undertakes and agrees to keep and maintain at, or near. said dam a sufficient amount of explosives to immediately blow out and remove said dam to such an extent as will permit the free flow of the Colorado River to the southward, so that the same will not endanger any of said property. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |