OCR Text |
Show This is to certify that the application of which', the foregoin: is a true and correct copy has been considered and 13 hereby approved subject to vested rights, provisions of the Water Code of the State of California, and the following limitations and conditions: 1. The amount of water appropriated under this application shall be limited to the amount which can be beneficially used; shall not exceed 2000 cubic feet per second to be diverted frcu January 1st to December 31st of each season, and shall be limited to 1,085,950 acre-feet in any calendar year. 2. The Colorado River flows along a part of the Eastern Boundary of the Stat* of California and is the subject of an interstate compact (the Colorado River Compact signed at Santa Fa, New Kexico, November 24, 1922) to which the State of California is a party. Under authority of an Act of Congress (V> Stat. 1057), the United States has contracted to deliver to The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a municipal corporation of the State of California, at the District's point of diversion known as Intake pumping plant, I 1 0' 21" B. 1876.08' from SW Cor. Sec. 28; being within the NW£ of SWi of Section 28, Township 3 N, R 27 E, SBB 4 K, in the County of San Bernardino, 1,212,000 acre-feet oi water annually, from storage constructed by the United States at Hoover Dam on said River outside of the State of California. The facts are found to be such as brinf, the case within the terms of oection 1005 of the Water Code of California. 3. As required by said Act of Congress, California has by act of its Legislature (Stats. 1929, p. 38) agreed to limit its consumptive use of the water of the Colorado .liver, and this permit is issued subject to the conditions of said Limitation Act. /». By contract dated October U, 1946, entitled "Contract Kerging Rights of The City of San Diego and The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Under Contracts with the United States Dated February 15, 1933, and April 24, 1930 (Amended September 28, 1931), Respectively," the rights of the City of San Diee;o to the storage and delivery of Colorado River water as evidenced by the said San Diego Water Delivery Contract ware merged with and added to the rights of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California under the District's said water delivery contract so that, as between the parties to said Merger Contract there is presently no distinction between priority Ho. U and priority No. 5, as set out in the Seven Party Priority Agreement hereinafter referred to, all rights under both priorities vesting in The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. 5. Ttiis permit supplements, and is without prejudice to, rights held or claimed by applicant under said contracts with the United States, or under appropriation, user or otherwise. 5o much water is to be diverted under this permit and Permits Nos.. -1- |
Source |
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. |