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<br /> <br />... '" I~ ... <br />4'- ""', <br /> <br />r:".\ P T E R 1 <br /> <br />OPER:\TIO:'\ :\:-\1) ,\I:\I:-\TE:-\:\:'\CE <br /> <br />~IAI:\" AQUEDcCT <br /> <br />TilE term main aqueduct of Thl' )tetropolitan \ruter Di::trict <br />o( Southern California i~ u.~I'(.1 to dl'::i~natl' ~ht'. fin' pumJl~ng <br />plants. the 2:w-ky tnm::ml~::lOn ~y...h'm bnn~lIlg operatllls,r <br />power from Boon'r Dam. the telephone ~....:,tem. one-h,tlf of thp <br />Parkl'r power plant. the dam:: and re..;ervoir::. the tunnels. canals. <br />cut-and-con'r conduits. in"ert",d siphons. pa"t'd rond:, from main <br />highwa....s to cnmps. and the unpayed patrol roar1~ between the Colo- <br />rado Riwr and Lake )Iathews, ton:,truction of all these (t'atures <br />t'xcepting the Parkt'r power plant W,IS completed in the fall of 1!I:Jfl. <br />Colorado River W,tter first flowing into Lake )Iathews on XovembeT <br />2 of that ~'ear. <br />[)in'r~ioT1 of water from the Colorado Rin~r into the aqueduct <br />i:: made at tht' Intllke Jlumpin~ plant on the California shore of <br />Lakl' IIIl\'asU about two miles Upl'itrellm from Parkt'r Dam. From <br />thil'i point the aqllt>fluct eXh'lHls 2-12 milt's to Lake )Iathewl'i. lo- <br />cated in th(' Cajalco bnsin l'iouth of the City of Hh.er::ide. when' <br />large storage is de,.eloJlt'd at the hl::'ml of the distribution sy:,tem. <br />The ori~dnal ('ost of the main aqm'duct to ,July ;n, 1941. the cost <br />of addition~ and bettermt'nls l'iincl' that date, and thl' l1l't con:,truc- <br />tion cost 011 J un(' :10. I fl.I!) llre shown in table 2. The:,e costs include <br />all preliminary expl::'n:,e of ors,ranization, enginet'ring. and sun.eys: <br />right of way allflland::; pa\'ed main road:" later s,rivl'1l tu San Bl'r- <br />nardino and Riwrsidt' Counties; construction utilities: :mll Parker <br />Dam and the Lake lIava:,u land::. tith' to both now being vested in <br />the United States. The net {'o:;t i~ after thl::' dt'c1uctions l'ihown in <br />the table. <br /> <br /> <br />/.a1.;(' llOI'(I."1I <br /> <br />19] <br /> <br />