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<br />Actual quantities of Colorado River water sold since the begin-
<br />ning of operations in 1941 are shown in table 11. The largest gain
<br />over the previous fiscal year was by the San Diego County Water
<br />Authority with an increase of 30,549.1 acre-feet. followed by Long
<br />Beach, Los Angeles, and Pasadena with increases of 1,976,1,
<br />1,676.2, and 1,364.1 acre-feet, respectively, Gains were also
<br />registered by Coastal Municipal Water District and Fullerton
<br />with increases of 128,8 and 64.9 acre-feet, respectively. The other
<br />eight agencies taking water used less than in the previous year,
<br />the decreases ranging from 1,131.0 acre.feet for Burbank to 9.4
<br />acre-feet. for Anaheim, The net increase for all constituent areas
<br />was 31,790.8 acre-feet or 28,1 per cent. Exclusive of the San Diego
<br />County Water Authorit.y t.he net increase for the remaining const.i-
<br />tuents was 1,241.7 acre-feet or 1.7 per cent, compared to 20.3 per
<br />cent for the previous fiscal year.
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<br />The average annual rat.e of water production from local sources
<br />of the constituent areas of the District year by year from July 1,
<br />1934 to June 30, 1949, is given in table 12. This year six of the,
<br />constit.uent areas recorded increases in water production over the
<br />previous fiscal year and nine recorded decreases, with one agency,
<br />West Basin Municipal Water District, reporting for t.he first time,
<br />A net gain for all agencies of 63,53 cubic feet per second, or 7.5
<br />per cent, is accounted for principally by the annexation of t.he West.
<br />Basin Municipal Water District and t.he annexation of the Cit.y of
<br />Newport Beach to Coastal Municipal Water District. Exclusive
<br />of these new annexations the net gain was only 10 cubic feet per
<br />second or 1.2 per cent.
<br />In the decade since 1938-39 the total water production of consti-
<br />tuent areas of the District, excluding the San Diego County Water
<br />Authorit.y and the West Basin Municipal Water District, has
<br />increased 60 per cent with individual increases for t.his period
<br />ranging from a high for Burbank of 236 per cent to a low for Santa
<br />Monica of 25 per cent, Ot.her 10-year increases are Torrance 160,
<br />Compton 102, Lung Beach 94, Fullerton 81, Santa Ana 73, Glendale
<br />71, San Marino 57, Anaheim 53, Los Angeles 53, and Beverly Hills
<br />41 per ('.ent.
<br />Table 13 sho\v~ for eac.h con:;tituent are3 the Quantity of water
<br />produced locally, the quant.ity uf Colorado River water delivered,
<br />and the percentage of the total for each during the 1948-49 fiscal
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