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Show the provisions of this act and all water necessary for the supply of any rights -which nay now exist, shall not exceed four million four hundred thousand acre feet of the Tiaters apportioned to the lower basin States by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colcrado River compact, plus not more than one-half of any excess or surplus waters unapportioned by said compact, such uses always to be subject to the terms of s-±d compact* Section 4(a) also authorized Arizona, California and Nevada to enter into an apportionment agreement which, among other things, should providet That of the 7,500,000 acre feet annually apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (a) of Article HI of the Colorado River compact, there shall be apportioned to the State of Nevada 300,000 acre feet and to the State of Arizona 2,800,000 acre feet for exclusive beneficial consumptive use in perpetuity, and (2) that the State of Arizona may annually use one-li&lf of the excess or surplus water unapportioned by the Colorado River compact, and (3) that the State of Arizona shall have the exclusive beneficial use of the Gila River and its tributaries within the boundaries of said State *** (7) said agreement to take effect upon the ratification of the Colorado River compact by Arizona, California and Nevada. California, by act of its legislature, March 16, 1929 (C. 16, Statutes and amendments to codes of California, 1929) agreed and bound itself to the limitation of A,400,000 acre feet of HI(s) water plus one-half of the surplus, but it has never agreed to enter into the tri-state compact authorized by Section 4. (3) Secretary ffilbur'a contracts with California, Acting under authority of Section 5 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, Secretary Wilbur, during the years 1930 to 1933, executed contracts with California interests under which the Secretary agreed to deliver water from Lake Mead for use in California, to the following parties and in the following amounts t Imperial Irrigation District for use in Imperial and Coachella Valleys and Palo Verde Irrigation District..........4,15°. 000 acre feet Metropolitan Water District, for use on the coastal plain of California ................................................1,100,000 acre feet City of San Diego .............................................. 112.000 acre feet TOTAL ...............................................5,362,000 acre feet It is significant that the delivery of water in each of the contracts is "subject to availability thereof for use in California under the Colorado Fiver compact, and the Boulder Caiyon Project Act." it is significant also that in each of the contracts there is specifically set forth the apportionment of the foregoing amounts of water in accordance with the following prioritiesi (1) A first priority to Palo Verde Irrigation District for 104,000 acres covering rights which had vested prior to the building of Boulder Dam. |
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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] : |