Title |
State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial 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 : the United States of America and State of Nevada, interveners : State of Utah and State of New Mexico, impleaded defendants : report / Simon H. Rifkind, special master |
Creator |
United States. Supreme Court |
Subject |
Water rights; Water consumption; Rivers |
OCR Text |
Show The record of this action is another chapter in the long history of controversy relating to the Colorado River. Suit was initiated by Arizona on August 13, 1952, by filing a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint against the State of California and seven public agencies of the State.1 On January 19, 1953, the motion, unopposed, was granted. |
Publisher |
[Washington, D.C. : U.S. Supreme Court, 1960] |
Contributors |
Rifkind, Simon H. |
Date |
1960-12-05 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Digitization Specifications |
Image files generated by Photoshop CS from PDF files |
Language |
eng |
Rights Management |
Digital Image Copyright 2004, University of Utah. All Rights Reserved. |
Holding Institution |
UNLV Libraries, Special Collection, 4505 Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 |
Source Physical Dimensions |
ix, 433 p. ; 27 cm |
Call Number |
KFA2847.5.C6 A337 1960 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s61835d5 |
Setname |
wwdl_azvca |
ID |
1120114 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61835d5 |
Title |
page 256 |
OCR Text |
Show 256 ;, that the Secretary may know how much water he may release for consumption on each Indian Reservation. Thus in periods when there is insufficient water for the Secretary to fulfill all of his delivery obligations to users in a particular state, he will have to satisfy them according to priority. In such a case it will be necessary for him to know the rights and priorities of Indian Reservations as against other users within the state.4 What these rights and priorities are can be determined only by resolving the controversy between the United States and the States of Arizona and California over the validity and scope of the reservations of mainstream water which the United States claims to have made. Indeed, if the Indian Reservations can acquire water rights only pursuant to state law, the Secretary may be prohibited from delivering any mainstream water to some of them since, so far as the evidence shows, some of the Reservations have never complied with the formalities required by the applicable state law in order to obtain a water right. Furthermore, the claims of the United States to water from the Colorado River for the benefit of Indian Reservations are of such great magnitude that failure to adjudicate them would leave a cloud on the legal availability of substantial amounts of mainstream water for use by non-Indian projects. Since the Secretary cannot know how to operate Hoover Dam and the mainstream works below unless the controversy between the United States and the States of Arizona and California is resolved, since failure to adjudicate it will leave non-Indian users in doubt as to the water available for their use, and since this controversy has been prop- 4It should be noted that, under similar circumstances, the Secretary may need to know the water rights intrastate of other users. In the case of the California agencies who are parties to this suit these rights are set out in the Seven-party Agreement. Such rights of other users not parties to this suit obviously cannot be determined herein. |
Format |
application/pdf |
Source |
Original Report: State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial 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 |
Resource Identifier |
268-UUM-COvAZ-SMRP_page 256.jpg |
Setname |
wwdl_azvca |
ID |
1120008 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61835d5/1120008 |