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Show -19- Region 5 (which includes Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and southern Colorado) The Regional Counsel advises that for the Rio Grande Project in Texas and New Mexico, withdrawals were made under New Mexico statutes from the Rio Grande in New Mexico, defined as non-navigable in United States v. Rio Grande Irrigation Co. (174 U. S. 690). On that part of the Rio Grande below New Mexico, which is generally acknowledged to be navigable, no filings have been made. While the Valley Gravity Canal Project was initially authorized by the Act of June 28, 1941 (55 Stat. 303, 331), no filings have been made as of this date, the Mexican Water Treaty of February 3, 1944, having intervened before construction changing the features of the project so as to require reauthorization. In other words, there has been no occasion up to this date to make filings on navigable streams in this region. Water rights acquired under section 7 of the Reclamation Act of 1902, for the Rio Grande, Carlsbad Project, in New Mexico, and the Palmorhea Project, in Texas, involve water on legally non-navigable streams. The same is true of water rights from the Canadian River, a tributary to the Arkansas River, acquired under New Mexico laws for the Tucumcari Project. |
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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. |