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Show [2] son area to use a like amount, making a total of approximately 50,000 acre-feet by Year 2000. Development subsequent to the 1954 Report indicates that perhaps this figure is conservative. In determining industrial water needs in Eldorado Valley, it was estimated that a like amount, i.e., 50,000 acre-feet, would be consumptively used by Year 2000. The program of the State in purchasing 126,775 acres of government land in Eldorado Valley and making it available to industry and for small homesite tracts for industrial workers would fit in well in any program of dispersal of industry. Excerpt from Chapter 5, pp. 44-45 Estimated Future Industrial Water Uses-Year 2000 The amount of water needed for industrial development would, of course, depend upon the type of industry and to a great extent upon the amount of water available. The present use of water in the Henderson area, which is an industrial center in Las Vegas Valley, is about 18,000 acre-feet annually. It was estimated in the 1954 report that the use by present industries by Year 2000 would be 25,300 acre-feet and that new industries would need an additional 25,000 acre-feet by Year 2000, or a total of 50,300 acre-feet. It is assumed in this report that the use in Eldorado Valley for industrial uses by Year 2000 will be about the same as for the Henderson industrial area, namely, 50,-000 acre-feet in excess of all domestic, agricultural and small homesite tract areas. |
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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] : |