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Show SEC. 3. A third priority (a) to Imperial Irrigation District. 2nd other lands under or that will be served from the All-American Canal in Imperial and Coachella Valleys, and (b) to Palo Verde Irrigation District for use exclusively on 16,000 acres in that area known as the "Lower Palo Verde Mesa", adjacent to Palo Verde Irrigation District, for beneficial consumptive use, 3,850,COO acre-feet of water per annum less the beneficial consumptive use under the priorities designated in Sections 1 and 2 above* The rights designated (a) and (b) in this Section are equal in priority. The total beneficial consumptive use under priorities stated in Sections 1, 2, and 3 of this article shall not exceed 3,850,000 acre-feet of water per annum* SEC. k. A fourth priority to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and/or the City of Los Angeles, for beneficial consumptive use, by themselves and/or others, on the Coastal Plain of Southern California, 550,000 acre-feet of water per annum. SEC. 5. A fifth priority (a) to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and/or the City of Los Angeles, for beneficial consumptive use, by themselves and/or others, on the Coastal Plain of Southern California, 550,000 acre-feet of water per annum, and (b) to the City of San Diego and/or County of San Diego, for beneficial consumptive use, 112,000 acre-feet of water per annum. The rights designated (a) and (b) in this section are equal in priority. SEC. 6. A sixth priority (a) to Imperial Irrigation District and other lands under or that will be served from the All-American Canal in Imperial and Coachella Valleys, and (b) to Palo Verde Irrigation District for use exclusively on 16,000 acres in that area known as the 'Lower Palo Verde Mesa1, adjacent to Palo Verde Irrigation District, for beneficial consumptive use, 300,000 acre-feet of water per annun. SEC. 7* A seventh priority of «11 remaining water available for use within California, for agricultural use in the Colorado River Basin in California, as said basin is designated on Map No. 23000 of the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation." 4. This permit is issued and made subject to that certain agreement dated February 1A, 1934, by and between Imperial Irrigation District and Coachella Valley County Water District* 5> As required by an Act of Congress of the United States, California has agreed to limit its consumptive use of the water of the Colorado River (Stats. 1929, page 38) and this permit is issued subject to the conditions of said limitation act* This permit is issued and permittee takes it subject to the following provisions of the Water Code: Section 1)90. A permit shall be effective for tuch time as the water actually appropriated under it is used for 1 useful and beneficial rposc in conformity with this division (of the Water Code), but no longer. Section 1391. Every permit shall include the enumeration of conditions therein which in substance shall include all of the provisions of is article and the statement that any appropriator of water to whom a permit is issued takes it subject to the conditions therein expressed. Section 1392. Every permittee, if he accepts a permit, does so under the conditions precedent that no value whatsoever in excess of the tual amount paid to the State therefor shall at any time be assigned to or claimed for any permit granted or issued under the provisions of this »nton (of the Water Code), or for any rights granted or acquired under the provisions of this division (¦**¦ the Water Code), in respect to the nuljtion by any competent public authority of the services or the price of the services to be rendered by any permittee or by the holder of any :t, lighting district, or any political subdivision of the State, of the rights and property of any permittee, or the possessor of any rights granted, i*tued ftlliiliA^ provision* of ihii division (of the Water Code). Witness my band and the seal of the Department of Public Works of the State of California this 6 th day of JPHUATJ 79 50 |
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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. |