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<br />products, $130,000.000 for fruit and nuts, and $128,000,000 for
<br />truck and field crops, a total of $502,000,000, or about three per
<br />eent less than the total for 1948.
<br />The output of oil and gas decreased slightly in both Los Angeles
<br />and Orange counties in J 949 compared with the previous year but
<br />still reached impressive totals, as compiled by Western Oil and Gas
<br />Association, of 91,972,000 barrels of crude oil and 101,151,000,000
<br />cubic feet of natural gas from the Los Angeles pools and 37,279,000
<br />barrels and 30,390,000,000 cubic feet from the Orange County fields.
<br />The average dailr production in the two counties was 354,100 bar-
<br />rels of oil and 360,400,000 cubic feet of gas compared with 359,200
<br />and 384,800,000. respectively. in 1948.
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<br />Continuation of drouth conditions in the coastal area through
<br />the sixth successive real' resulted in diversion to the San Diego
<br />County Water Authority of nearly all the natural Colorado Rivet.
<br />water the San Diego aqueduct can carry. Delivery from San Jacinto
<br />reservoir to the Authority totaled 69,308 acre-feet at an average
<br />rate of 95.7 cubic feet per second, about 3.2 per cent below the pre-
<br />vious year.
<br />.Delivery of water from Lake Mathews to the U. S. Army for use
<br />at March Field was increased greatly in the last quarter so that
<br />total delivery for the year was 258.1 acre-feet.
<br />Sales of surplus natural Colorado River water were made to a
<br />contractor on road construction in Riverside County in the small
<br />quantity of 20.7 acre-feet, to the Orange County Water District at
<br />the Santa Ana River 22,725.6 aCl'e-feet, and to Southern California
<br />Water Company at Claremont 307.4 acre-feet.
<br />Softened and filtered Colorado River water was supplied to all
<br />constituents in Los Angeles and Orange counties, except the City of
<br />San Marino. the total delivery of 72,936 acre-feet falling a little
<br />below the previou~ year. The average rate of delivery was 100.7
<br />cubic feet pel' second. The followin!! eight constituent areas drew
<br />upon the Colorado River for virtually all or a large percentage of
<br />their water supply: Santa Monica 98,3, Anaheim 93.8, Pasadena
<br />76, Santa Ana 75.1, Torrance 46, Coastal Municipal Water District
<br />45,2. Fullerton 44,2, and Long Beach 41.7, Softened water was also
<br />delivered under contract to Mount San Antonio Junior College from
<br />the Orange County feeder in a total of 59,8 acre-feet.
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