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Show -2- a public district comprising a large group of cities in southern California, which will contract both for storage of water at the dam, with its delivery at a point on the river, and also for a large block of the power necessary to pump a domestic water supply to an elevation of 1,200 or 1,300 feet. Second, the project is so shaped that it will make possible the securing of a domestic water supply. Other plans of development tentatively suggested have not been adequate to this end. The coastal belt in southern California, having a population at present of more than 1,800,000, is fast reaching the limit of its available domestic supply, and careful investigations have shown that the populous cities of this coastal plain, including the city of Los Angeles, must for their own security acquire an added source of domestic water supply, and that the Colorado presents the only place where this may be secured. Some years ago the city of Los Angeles went to Owens Valley and constructed a great aqueduct 240 miles in length to augment local sources. Even this added supply is not proving sufficient for the needs of that city. Nearly two years ago this city voted a bond issue of $2,000,000 for preliminary surveys and investigation respecting the securing of a supply from the Colorado River, and enough work has already been done to fully establish the feasibility of the plan, if and provided there is large storage of the flood waters of the river. The formation of a large public district, comprising the cities of Los Angeles, Pasadena, Glendale, Orange County cities, and such other cities as desire to join, is contemplated for the purpose of building the necessary aqueduct from the river to the coast to supply these cities with domestic water. This aqueduct will be approximately |
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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. |