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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit NO..2..Q.3.2 Identification: h.UG..12.19.57 Admitted: A U G. 12...1957 Extract From Boulder Canyon Project-Questions and Answers, Bureau of Reclamation, October 1, 1930. (p. 5) Water Allocation: Q. What is the allocation of water under the Colorado River compact? A. Based on a mean annual run-off of 16,000,000 acre-feet, the compact allocated 7,500,000 acre-feet to the upper basin States and 7,500,000 acre-feet to the lower basin States, with the right of the latter to increase their beneficial consumptive use of such water by 1,000,000 acre-feet per annum. Q. How much of the water allocated to the lower basin States does California get? A. California has agreed that the aggregate annual consumptive use of the river water shall not exceed 4,-400,000 acre-feet of the 7,500,000 allocated to the lower basin by article III (a) of the compact. |
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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. |
