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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No.-13.Q1 Identification: AUSJLJ857 Admitted: A.UG-5--J357 Extract From Statement of W. S. Norviel, Commissioner for Arizona, Analyzing the Newly Negotiated Colorado River Compact, January 15, 1923 (Plaintiff's Exhibit No. 50) [Special Master's Exhibit No. 4, pp. A59-60] The U. S. reclamation service report: "Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity," shows there are irrigated in the upper basin 1,526,000 acres, consuming approximately 2,400,000 acre feet of water per annum; that the feasible irrigable new acreage in the upper basin is 2,500,000, with a need for an additional supply of water of 3,750,000 acre feet per annum, or an ultimate acreage in the upper basin, present and prospective, of 4,000,000 acres, with a consumptive use of water of 6,250,000 acre feet, with a possible intermountain diversion of 350,000 acre feet, making a total consumptive use in the upper basin of 6,600,000 acre feet per annum, foreseen at present. A study of the river discloses an average flow past the station at Yuma of 17,400,000 acre feet per annum; this is below all diversion except the Imperial valley; it is also below all inflowing streams. The station at Laguna dam shows 16,400,000 acre feet per annum. These figures |
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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. |
