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Show This is to certify that the application of which the foregoing is a trus and correct copy has been considered and is hereby approved subject to rested rights, provisions of the Water Code of the State of California, and the following limitations and conditions: 1. The amount of Mater appropriated under this application shall be limited to the amount which can be beneficially used; shall not exceed 155 cubic feet per second to be diverted from January 1st to December 31st of each season, and shall be limited to 112,000 acre feet in any calendar year. 2. The Colorado River flows along a part of the Eastern Boundary of the State of California and is the subject of an interstate compact (the Colorado River Compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 2k, 1922) to which the State of California is a party. Under authority of an Act of Congress (A5 Stat. 1057), the United States has contracted to deliver to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern 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. 1876..08' from SW Cor. Sec. 28; being within the NW£ of SW£ of Section 28, Township 3 N, R 27 E, SBB k M, in the County of San Bernardino, 1,212,000 acre feet of water annually, from storage constructed by the United States at Hoover 0am on said River outside of the State of California. The facts are found to be such as bring the case within the terms of Section 1005 of the Mater 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 the water of the Colorado River, and this permit is issued subject to the conditions of said limitation Act. U. By contract dated October A, 1946, entitled "Contract Merging Rights of The City of San 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, 1931), 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. 5. This permit supplements, and is without prejudice to, rights held or claimed by applicant under said contracts with the United States, or under appropriation, user or -1- |
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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. |