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Show COPY RFK UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Reclamation 620 Rowan Building, 453 South Spring Street, Los Angeles 13, California. May 5, 1945. From Regional Counsel To Denver Office (Attention: Director, Branch of Project Planning) Subject: Water available from Colorado River for Central Arizona Projects -Lower Colorado Basin. 1. Receipt is acknowledged of your letter dated May 2, 1945, advising you are not sure that you understand the conclusions stated in office letter of April 27, 1945, particularly because of the statement made in paragraph 3 thereof that "Under the terms of Article 7(d) Arizona would not necessarily be charged with total diversions by it above Boulder Dam." 2. You state that in the present draft of the Colorado River Basin Report it has been assumed that annual diversion of 2,000,000 acre-feet to Central Arizona would be made at Bridge Canyon Dam site, located on the Colorado River upstream from Lake Mead, and that in the report it is also assumed that of the water diverted from the Colorado River at Bridge Canyon 500,000 acre-feet annually would return to the Colorado River below Imperial Dam. You then ask two questions, namely: (a) Is our previous assumption of 1,500,000 acre-foot charge against the Arizona contract a proper one for this diversion? (b) Should the Arizona contract be charged with 2,000,000 acre-feet since that is the amount b/ which the assumed diversion would diminish the flow into Lake Mead? 3« Article 7 (d) of contract between the United States and the State of Arizona dated February 9, 1944, provides: "The obligation to deliver water at or below Boulder Dam shall be diminished to the extent that consumptive uses now or hereafter existing in Arizona above Lake Mead diminish the flow into Lake Mead, and such obligation shall be subject to such reduction on account of evaporation, reservoir and river losses, as may be required to render this contract in conformity with said compact and said act." -1- 43350 MAY-3'45 |
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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] : |
