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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No.JX3.OL2 Identification: AUG..5...1957 Admitted: AJL/GL.5...J957 Extract From Statement Relating to the Purpose and Construction of the Colorado River Compact by Richard E. Sloan, Legal Advisor to the Colorado River Commissioner for Arizona, January IS, 1923. (Plaintiff's Exhibit No. 49) [Special Master's Exhibit No. 4, pp. A66-67, 69] The compact is based upon two major assumptions. The first is that the waters of the river now running- to waste are to be conserved by adequate storage reservoirs, and, second, that there is sufficient water in the river if conserved to meet all the demands for agricultural and domestic uses, both in the upper and lower basins, and in addition to meet all the probable demands of the southwest. . . . [T]he maximum needs of the upper basin for agriculture and domestic uses approximate 6,000,000 acre-feet. Certain intermountain diversions are proposed -one for Denver and its vicinity amounting to about 300,000 acre-feet, and certain diversions in Utah amounting in the aggregate to 200,000 acre-feet. The total consumptive use in the Upper Basin will be approximately 6,500,000 acre-feet. |
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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. |
