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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 26 Admitted: August 13, 1956 Extract From Hearings Before the Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation on S. Res. 320, 68th Cong., 2d Sess. (1925) (pp. 691-693) Meeker Tables [Compiled by R. I. Meeker, irrigation engineer, December 2, 1925] Table A.-Colorado River Basin water supply-Contributions by States These figures represent conditions of reconstructed river or river flow unreduced by irrigation uses. Actual river flow is now less due to consumption by irrigation. The Arizona figures include the Gila River, which is a part of the Colorado River system. [Approximate values only] State Acre-feet Per cent of basin supply State Acre-feet Per cent of basin supply Colorado....................... Arizona......................... Utah.............................. Wyoming................._... New Mexico................. 12,000,000 2,850,000 3,100,000 2,200,000 500,000 55 18 14 10 2 Nevada.......................... California..................... 75,000 0 0.3 0 21,725,000 100 Colorado produces 55 per cent of the Colorado River water supply. The upper basin States contribute 79 per cent of the basin water supply. Upper basin allotment under the terms of the compact will be 35 per cent of the basin water supply and 44 per cent of upper basin production. COLORADO RIVER BASIN WATER SUPPLY-AVERAGE YEARLY FLOW OF BASIN Based on long-time mean, covering wet and dry cycles. Recorded flow corrected for depletion by irrigation. These figures represent approximately the total yearly flow of the Colorado River basin unreduced by irrigation consumption; in other words, the run-off of the reconstructed river. Upper and lower basin terms fit definitions of same in Colorado River compact as drafted at Santa Fe, N. Mex., November, 1922. |