Water supply of the Lower Colorado River Basin
Subtitle: extracts from brief and proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, submitted April 1, 1959, to Hon. Simon H. Rifkind, special master, by the California defendants and excerpts from the evidence : Arizona v. California, no. 9 original October 1959 term
Publisher: State of California Dept. of Justice
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Sacramento?
Language: eng
Subjects: Water rights
Other titles: Lower Colorado River Basin.
Description: Case summary: "Arizona v. California was a 12-year epic battle including three years of trial in front of a special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court. The trial involved 106 witnesses and hundreds of volumes of exhibits, ultimately producing a 433-page final report from the Master in December of 1960. Proceedings at the U.S. Supreme Court required two oral arguments, producing a 5-3 decision in 1963 with two dissenting opinions, with the majority opinion implemented by a decree in 1964. The case was an original action in the U.S. Supreme Court, with Arizona seeking to clarify its rights to the use of Colorado River basin water. It was filed 30 years after the seven basin states drafted the Colorado River Compact, which apportioned the waters of the basin roughly equally between the states of the Upper and Lower Divisions, but did not apportion shares to individual states. In addition to Arizona and California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were party to the case because they had lands located within the Lower Basin. The United States was also party to the case because of the federal water projects and lands located within the Lower Basin. It was perhaps the most high profile water case ever to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court and produced considerable commentary."-- Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Arizona v. California Revisited, 52 Nat. Resources J. 363, 365-66 (2012) (quoted with permission of the author).
Notes: Includes tables.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part V of the brief filed by the California defendants, April 1, 1959 --; title: Part V of the findings of fact and conclusions of law filed by the California defendants, April 1, 1959 -- -- APPENDIXES: Appendix A.; title: Selected exhibits relating to water supply presented by Thomas M. Stetson, Consulting Engineer, Los Angeles, California -- -- Appendix B.; title: Extracts from testimony on water supply, and related exhibits, presented by Raymond A. Hill, Consulting Engineer, Los Angeles, California -- -- Appendix C.; title: Extracts from testimony on water supply, and related exhibits, presented by Dr. Luna B. Leopold, Chief Hydraulic Engineer, United States Geological Surey, Washington, D.C. -- -- Appendix D.; title: Extracts from testimony on water supply, and related exhibits, presented by John R. Riter, Chief Development Engineer, United States Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado -- -- Appendix E.; title: Extracts from testimony on future quality of Colorado River water and relationship to water use, and related exhibits, presented by Dr. Milton Fireman, Extension Soil Specialist, Agricultural Extension Service, University of California, Davis, California -- -- Appendix F.; title: Extracts from evidence on the future quality and composition of Colorado River water: California Exhibit 5585, a memorandum dated August 15, 1958, from Raymond A. Hill to Northcutt Ely, re future salt burden of Colorado River.