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Show -5- Fifty-fifty main stream surplus. Fifty-fifty Mexican burden-main stream. Any shortage in main stream without preference or priority. Reduction from Santa Fe and Washington, 200,000. Arizona urged the adoption of this suggestion. It was pointed out that it followed the theory of compromise indicated in the Swing-Johnson bill that all discussions brought us back to such a compromise, and that its embodiment in the bill was the result of many weeks of discussion by the congressional representatives of the States concerned. In order to reduce this proposal to figures a table was prepared and submitted to Arizona and California. This table was based on the assumption of engineers that 10,500,000 acre-feet of water would pass through Boulder Canyon Dam per annum. If that assumption were correct, then, it was said that there would be below the dam 9,400,000 acre-feet of water for diversion by all other interests except the Metropolitan Water District, which it was estimated would need 1,100,000 acre-feet at the dam. The following schedule of diversions for the 10,500,000 acre-feet was suggested: 3-A 3-B Surplus Total California ........ 4,400,000 500,000 1,000,000 5,900,000 Arizona .......... 2,800,000 500,000 1,000,000 4,300,000 Nevada ............ 300,000 ................................ 300,000 7,500,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 10,500,000 Assumed Mexican burden of 800,000 acre-feet divided 50-50 between Arizona and California. |
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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. |