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

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27 Metropolitan Water District..................1,100,000 Imperial Valley and others ....................3,850,000 City of San Diego.................................... 112,000 Palo Verde................................................ 300,000 Total..................................................5,362,000 Plaintiff alleges that the total of the waters for the storage and delivery of which it was so contracted is substantially the entire amount which may legally be diverted from said river and consumptively used in the State of California under the terms of said statutory contract between the State of California and the United States, and is far in excess of California's equitable share of said waters. XX Boulder Canyon Dam and Reservoir The Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to the provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Act and appropriations made by Congress, has constructed Boulder Dam across the Colorado River at Black Canyon and created Boulder Reservoir, at a cost of approximately $170,000,000.00. Said reservoir has a storage capacity of 30,500,000 acre feet and will so regulate the discharge of the river as to provide a constant flow of 15,000 second feet of water per year at Boulder Dam, less future upstream depletions. XXI Parker Dam The United States, acting through the Secretary of the Interior, on February 10, 1933, entered into a contract