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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 127 Identification: May 6, 1957 Admitted: May 6, 1957 Notice of Appropriation of Water by Imperial Irrigation District The Imperial Irrigation District of Imperial County, State of California, hereby claims eight thousand (8000) cubic feet of water per second, or the corresponding number of standard miners inches, as defined in Chapter 222 of the Statutes of the State of California, approved March 23, 1901, or the corresponding number of inches measured under a four inch (4") pressure flowing in the Colorado River, at Laguna Dam on said river, as the place of the intended diversion. That the purpose for which the said Imperial Irrigation District claims said water is that sufficient water may be furnished by it to each land owner within said district for irrigation and domestic uses and purposes within and throughout said District, and for all purposes incidental thereto, including mechanical purposes not inconsistent with the provisions of the Irrigation District Act of 1897, and the amendments thereto. The means by which said District intends to divert and carry said water is by the use of existing and the construction of additional suitable diverting and intake works at said point of diversion, and by a canal and acqueduct leading from the same, having a bottom width of sixty (60) feet, with side slopes of two feet to each one foot in rise, having a water depth of twenty (20) feet, and a water surface width of one hundred and forty feet (140), with a grade of 0.1 of a foot per mile, to follow in a gen- |
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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. |