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Show -14- Demand for the irrigation of 90,000 acres under the Palo Verde Mutual Water Company's project. (Headgate duty 5 acre-feet.) Demand acre-feet Total Total per acre demand demand Month. irrigated. acre-feet. second-feet. January .30 27,000 439 February .28 25,200 454 March .40 36,000 585 April .42 37,800 635 May .46 41,400 673 June .46 41,400 696 July .57 51,300 834 August .53 47,700 776 September .48 43,200 726 October .46 41,400 673 November .33 29,700 499 December .31 27,900 454 Total 5.00 450,000 (The capacity of main canal 700 second-feet.) He further states that in a few years four large irrigation projects now in operation or under construction will place 970,000 acres under irrigation from the Colorado River making in the winter a shortage of water and necessitating storage facilities, but as only a small amount of storage would be required for the lands under this project, if it should become necessary for this company to pay its proportion of the cost of storage construction, it will not prove a serious matter. He therefore concludes that the water supply of the Palo Verde Mutual Water Company is permanent and sufficient for the irri- |
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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. |