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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 1223 Identification: July 15, 1957 Admitted: Extract From Return Water and Drainage Recovery From Irrigation (Discussion by R. I. Meeker), 94 Transactions of American Society of Civil Engineers, Paper No. 1730 (1930). (pp. 338-39) MEEKER ON RETURN WATER FROM IRRIGATION Discussion R. I. Meeker,* M. Am. Soc. C. E. (by letter).-The question of return-flow water from irrigation is recognized by engineers as a large factor in river supplies and it is beginning to be appreciated generally by water users on river systems in all the Western States. Uncertainties concerning dependence on seepage water from irrigation as a large factor in water supplies, long ago passed from the field of speculation in Colorado, where pronounced, return-flow waters from irrigation have developed; where seepage or return-flow measurements were initiated in 1885 ;f and where such measurements have been systematically made to date (1928)4 The increas- *Cons. Engr., Denver, Colo. f'Seepage and Return-Flow Waters, Pt. 1; General Discussion and Principles," by L. G. Carpenter, Agricultural Experiment Station, Colorado Agricultural Coll., Fort Collins, Colo. $Biennial Repts., State Engr. of Colorado. |
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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. |