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Show APPLICANT MUST NOT FILL IN BLANKS BELOW PERMIT No. 76sq This is to certify that the application of which the foregoing is a true and correct copy has been considered and is hereby approved subject to vested rights, provisions of the Water Code of the State of California, and the following limitations and conditional 1. The amount of water appropriated shall be limited to the amount which can be beneficially used and shall not exceed 2,000 cubic feet per second to be diverted from January 1st to December 31st of each season* 2. The Colorado River flows along a part of the eastern boundary of the State of California and 1b the subject of an interstate compact to which the State of California is a party* Under authority of an Act of Congress, the United States has contracted to deliver to Coachella Valley County Water District, a public agency of the State of California, at the District's point of diversion known as Imperial Dam, water in the quantity as in said contract and hereinafter set out from storage constructed by the United States at Hoover Dam on said River outside of the State of California* Said facts are found to be such as bring the case within the terms of Section 1005 of the Water Code of California. 3* This permit supplements and is without prejudice to rights held or claimed by applicant under said contract with the United States, or under appropriation, user, or otherwise* So much water is to be diverted under this permit as is agreed in said contract to be delivered and as may be necessary to supply the District a total quantity, including all other waters diverted for use of the District from the Colorado River as follows: "The waters of the Colorado River available for use within the State of California under the Colorado River compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act shall be apportioned to the respective interests below named and in amounts and with priorities therein named and set forth, as follows: SEC. 1. A first priority to Palo Verde Irrigation District for beneficial use exclusively upon lands in said district as it now exists and upon lands between said district and the Colorado River, aggregating (within and without said district) a gross area of 10^,500 acres, such waters as may be required by said-lands* SEC* 2. A second priority to luma Project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation for beneficial use upon not exceeding a gross area of 25»OOO acres of land located in said Project in California, such waters as may be required by said lands* -1- |
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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] : California exhibits. |