AZ vs. CA:09 California Exhibits, Vol. IX; Nos. 400-457

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..'.):< i.. ' u certify'.'.it the irrigation nf which the foregoing is a true and •-.¦•re~'. City has been considered and is '..hereby a proved subJect o V"3'•¦ i rights, revisions of the Water Code of the State of California, and the following 1imita--ions and conditions 1. The amount of wat«r appropriated under this application shall be limited to the amount which Can be beneficially used; shall not exceed 2'.«X> cubic feet per second to be diverted from January 1st. to December 31^t of ~uch season, and snail be limited to 14,0r>0 icre-feetin any ci'.endir year. 2. The Colorado rtiver flows alon^ a part of the Eastern Boundary of the State of California and is the subject of an interstate compact (the Colorado itiver Compact signed at Santa Fe, Now Mexico, November 2i», 1922) to which trie itat« of California Is a party. Under authority of an Act of Con/ress (U5 iitat. 1057), the United States has contracted to deliver to The Ketror>olitan Water District of Jouthern California, a municipal corporation of the State of California, at the District's point of diversion known as Intake pumping plant, N 1° 0' 21" E. 1287.08' from SW Cor. Sec. 28; being within the fJW?, of JWt of Section 2fl, Township 3 N, R 27 I, SBB & M, in the County of San Bernardino, 1,212/XX) acre-feet of water annually, from storage constructed oy the United States at Hoover Dam on said River outside of the State of1 California. The fact9 are found to be such as bring the c«se within the terms of Section 1005 of the Water Code of California. 3. As required by said Act of Congress, California has by act of its Legislature (Stats. 1929, p. 38) agreed to limit its consumptive use of th« water of the Colorado River, and this permit is issued subject to the conditions of said Limitation Act. U. By contract dated October U, 19^*6, entitled "Contract Merging Rights of the City of ban Diego and The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Under Contracts with the United States Dated February 15, 1933, and April 24, 1930 (Amended September 28, 1939), Respectively," the rights of the City of San Diego to the storage and delivery of Colorado River water as evidenced by the said San Diego Water Delivery Contract were merged with and added to the rights of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California under the District's said water delivery contract so that, as between the parties to said Merger Contract there is presently no distinction between priority No. U and priority No. 5, as set out in the Seven Party Priority Agreement hereinafter referred to, all rights under both priorities vesting in The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. -1-