AZ vs. CA:25 California Exhibits, Vol. XXV; Nos. 7501-7859

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14 diverted and used, with the result that the diversions exceed its virgin flow. VIII Water Available for Future Appropriation Of the virgin flows of the Colorado River and its tributaries, other than the Gila, at Lees Ferry, Boulder Dam and Imperial Dam, after deducting existing appropriations, reservoir evaporations and river losses between Boulder Dam and Imperial Dam, there remain in said river for future appropriation the following annual average quantities of water, in acre feet: Lees Ferry ..............................................10,500,000 Boulder Dam ........................................11,100,000 Imperial Dam ........................................ 9,720,000 IX Discharge from Boulder Reservoir Under 1938 Conditions The United States Bureau of Reclamation estimates that by the Spring of 1938 irrigation will have been resumed on approximately 100,000 acres of land above Boulder Dam that have been developed in the past and are now dormant, and that transmountain diversions from the watershed now under construction in Colorado will have been completed; that the total depletions above Boulder Canyon will then aggregate 2,644,000 acre feet per year; and that the flow of the Colorado River into and out of