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Show 30 XXV Proposed Uses by California Corporations Notwithstanding the fact that California, by said Act of her legislature, agreed irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States, for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, to limit her aggregate annual consumptive use of the waters of the Colorado River to an amount not exceeding 5,485,500 acre feet, California and her corporations hereinafter named propose to divert from said river and consumptively use in California an aggregate of 14,330,000 acre feet per year, in which they are being aided and abetted by the United States by its construction and financing of works and facilities by means of which said diversions and uses will be effectuated. Pursuant to said purpose, said corporations have made applications to the Division of Water Resources, Department of Public Works of the State of California, for permits to divert and appropriate annually from said river the following quantities of water: Name of Corporation Second Feet Acre Feet Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.................................... 1,500 1,100,000 City of San Diego ................................ 155 120,000 Coachella Valley WTater Company...... 1,300 500,000 Imperial Irrigation District (for irrigation and domestic use) ................10,000 7,300,000 |
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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] : |