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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No.jfc£4i 3-0 ¥3 Identification: AY.G..L?..!.?57 Admitted: .AUH.1J2.J957 Extract From Brief of Complainant in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss Bill of Complaint, Arizona v. California, etal, 283 U. S. 423 (1931). (pp. 4-5, 33-34, 62) . . . . To each basin is apportioned the annual beneficial consumptive use in perpetuity of 7,500,000 acre-feet of water, which must satisfy all existing appropriations as well as all future appropriations. There are existing appropriations totalling 6,500,000 acre-feet annually in the Lower Basin and 2,500,000 acre-feet annually in the Upper Basin. The Upper Basin States agree not to deplete the flow of the main stream at Lee Ferry below 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of ten consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series. The flow of the system in excess of 15,000,000 acre-feet annually is not apportioned. So far as the Lower Basin States are concerned, they may use, but not appropriate, this unapportioned water, if and when it is available for use, subject to any rights which may be recognized in Mexico, and subject to its apportionment after October 1, 1963. If the satisfaction of recognized Mexican rights reduces the unapportioned water below 1,000,000 acre-feet annually, the Lower Basin may require the Upper Basin to deliver from its apportionment one-half such amount. |
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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. |