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Show -3- Senator Johnson. That is in the compact, you mean? Mr. Maddock. Yes; the compact. I beg your pardon. Senator Johnson. That is all right, sir. Mr. Maddock. It has been estimated by the Geological Survey that there are 9,385,000 acre-feet that could arrive at Laguna. So this would mean that in the river there is 1,850,000 in excess of the 7,500,000 allotment of the compact plus the 2,000.000 unallocated water which exists because of the peculiarity between the 8,500,000 and the 7,500,000 clauses of the Santa Fe compact or there is a total of 4,300,000 acre-feet unallocated in the lower basin. It seems peculiar that an 8,500,000 allocation should be less than a 7,500,000, but it is because of the fact that the amount of water in the Gila River was greater than they anticipated at Santa Fe or greater than they allowed for at Santa Fe. • • • • Senator Johnson. How much of the water of the Colorado is due to tributaries that flow through Arizona? Mr. Maddock. It is almost impossible to answer that question. If you mean water that finally arrives, there is much of Arizona's water that never reaches the Colorado, yet in the Santa Fe compact the consumption within the basin is considered. It must be considered. We have a river, like the Santa Cruz, that comes down in torrents at times, yet never reaches the Gila or Colorado Rivers on the surface. Senator Johnson. I do not expect exact figures, but I am asking you, approximately, what is the contribution of the tributaries of the Colorado, in Arizona, to the flow of the 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. |
