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Show 29 Boulder Canyon Project Act, on December 1, 1932, entered into a contract with the Imperial Irrigation District, a California corporation, for the construction of Imperial Dam across the Colorado River at a point 18 miles above the City of Yuma, Arizona, and a main canal, known as All-American Canal, and appurtenant structures, located entirely within the United States, connecting said dam with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California. The contract price of said dam and canal is $38,500,000.00, which is being furnished by the United States. Said canal is being constructed with a capacity of 15,000 second feet, the equivalent of 10,950,000 acre feet of water per year, which will be annually diverted from the Colorado River and consumptively used for power and domestic uses and to irrigate 1,031,000 acres of land in the Imperial and Coachella Valleys of California. XXIV United States Subsidies to California Exclusive of the cost of Boulder Dam (built primarily for the use and benefit of the State of California), the United States is now energetically engaged in building and in financing the building by others of dams, canals and other works and structures at a cost of approximately $250,000,000.00 to enable California and its residents to divert and consumptively use 12,050,000 acre feet per year of the waters of the Colorado River within the State of California. |
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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] : |