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Show California, duly organized and existing under the laws of that-State state. The defendants City of Los Angeles and City of San Diego are municipal corporations duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of California. The defendant County of San Diego is a county duly created and existing under the laws of the State of California. Since the commencement of this action, the Court has granted the United States of America and the State of Nevada leave to Intervene. The States of New Mexico and Utah have been lmpleaded by order of the Court. IV (a) The Colorado River is a navigable stream with a total length of 1293 miles. It rises in the-¦State--of Colorado and flows through that State and Utah before entering Arizona near its northeast corner. The Colorado River flows for 292 miles through Arizona. Then for 145 miles it forms the boundary between Arizona and Nevada, for 235 miles the boundary between Arizona and California, and for 16 miles the boundary between Arizona and Mexico. For 688 miles, or more than one-half its lengthy the Colorado River flows in Arizona or upon its boundary. (b) The natural drainage basin of the Colorado River in the United States is divided among the States as follows: Arizona ----------------103,000 square miles , California--------------- 4,£00 square miles , Nevada------------------ 12,000 square miles , Utah---------------------40,000 square miles. New Mexico------------23,000 square miles, Colorado----------------39,000 square miles, Wyoming---------------- 19,000 square miles. Approximately 43% of the natural drainage basin of the Colorado River lies within Arizona. Approximately 90% of the total area of Arizona is within said natural drainage basin. (c) The principal tributaries of the Colorado Rivar have a total combined length of approximately 2164 miles of which 836 miles are in Arizona. No tributaries enter the Colorado River from California. California does not contribute any appreciable or measurable quantity of water to the -River river. In the early years of the present century controversies arose among the seven Colorado River Basin States states over the use of the waters of that river. Pursuant to appropriate -Federat- federal and State state authorizations an interstate compact, known as The the " Colorado River Compact^ and hereinafter referred to as Compact, governing the -we-of-the-watera ofthe-Geiorado-River,-was negotiated, signed on November 24, 1922, ratified by the States states, and consented to by the Congress of the United States. By virtue of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (December 21, 1928, 45 Stat. 1057), the compliance by California with the terms and provisions of that Act, and the ratification of the Compact by six states 7-it-beoame-effeetire ea-to-aH-baatir-Statea except |
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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] : |