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Show BILL OF COMPLAINT - ARIZONA VS OTHER STATES AND THB SBCRETAHY OF THE INTERIOR Cenment by K.B. Debler The complaint may be stated to oenter around the following claims: (1) That the average annual flow of the Colorado River and its tributaries is 18,000,000 acre feet, of which 8,500,000 aore feet are in actual use by the Upper Basin, 6,500,000 acre feet by the Lower Basin, and 9,000,000 acre feet remain for further use. That of the 6,500,000 acre feet in use in the Lower Basin, 3,500,000 acre feet are in use in Arizona, 2,900,000 from Gila River. That of the 9,000,000 acre feet remaining unappropriated, 8,000,000 is from the main Colorado River, and 1,000,000 from tributaries entering in the Lower Basin above the entry of the Gila River. These claims are not in accordance with our estimates of flow or use, a comparison being presented herewith, the term appropriated being used in the same sense as in the complaint* Original flow of Colorado River ¦ " " Gila River Total In use by Upper Basin Lower Now available for use in Vmmr Basin Now in use in Lower Basin in U.S. In Arizona, on Gila River " " , otherwise Subtotal By other states California, Imperial Valley " , otherwise Other states Subtotal : As claimed : by Arizona . As estimated by me. : 16,100,000 : : 8,900,000 3 17,700,000 2,000,000 : 18,000,000 : 19,700,000 : 2,500,000 : 2,500,000 : 15,500,000 : 17,200,000 : 2,900,000 : 600jOOO 1,500,000 300,000 : 3,500,000 1,800,000 : 3,000,000 2,200,000 250,000 150,000 • : 2.600.000 |
