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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 2707 Identification:.................... Admitted: May 12, 1958 Tr. 16,961 Interrogatory No. 2 of Interrogatories Addressed to the intervener, the state of nevada, by the California Defendants, Dated March 13, 1956; the Answer Dated April 2, 1956. 2. What "rights which may now exist," as that phrase is used in Article III (a) of the Colorado River Compact, does Nevada claim as of 1922? As of 1929? What "present perfected rights," as that phrase is used in Article VIII of the Colorado River Compact, does Nevada claim as of 1922? As of 1929? March 13, 1956 2. Answer: No. 2. The perfected rights to the beneficial consumptive use of the waters of the Colorado River Stream System in 1922 and 1929 were as follows: Virgin River...................... 18,574 acre-feet Muddy River.................... 35,121 acre-feet Meadow Valley Wash.... 11,000 acre-feet Total ........................ 64,695 acre-feet No rights to the use of the above waters constitute vested perfected rights under Article VIII of the Compact for the reason none of such vested water rights could be supplied from storage on the main Colorado River. April 2, 1956 |
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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] : |