WSP12366

• File Number: 8210.140.20
• Description: Colorado River Basin Organizations and Entities - Colorado River Basin States Forum - California
• State: CA
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1940
• Author: Metro Water District
• Title: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California - Second Annual Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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INTRODUCTION

THE Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a
public corporation, comprising the cities of Anaheim, Fuller-
ton, and Santa Ana in Orange County, and Beverly Hills,
Burbank, Compton, Glendale, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Pasadena,
San Marino, Santa Monica, and Torrance in Los Angeles County,
was incorporated December 6, 1928. The organization was effected
under the state act, known as the Metropolitan Water District Act
(California Statutes of 1927, chapter 429, page 694), permitting
the joining together of cities and certain othe,' governmental sub-
divisions, such as water districts, not necessarily contiguous, for
cooperative effort in the development of a water supply. This public
corporation was organized for the purpose of developing, storing,
and distributing to its constituent areas water for domestic, indus-
trial, and other beneficial uses. Incidentally it was intended also to
provide a supply for such other coastal basin areas as later might
join the enterprise.
On June 30, 1940 the first objective of the District, the construc-
tion of the initial development of the Colorado River aqueduct
project, was approximately 96 per cent complete on the basis of
ability to deliver water to all member cities.
Percentages of completion of the principal construction features
on June 30, 1940 are as follows:

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Main aqueduct:
Tunnels. ..... ............m .. 100.0
C3nals, cUllduit..., :JIId ...illholl~..m. ..............._..__.. 100.0
Pumping plants mun...un m.................. ..............m.... 100.0
Dams and appUrlell<lnl wl)rks . .......... ......... ........_.. 100.0
Power trIJnstT1i,<,~iClI1 line and tdepnune line from Boulder Jam ................... 100.0
Canal and resen'uir fencing onmmmno ..................m ........ .. . ......... ... 100.0

Dj~tribulioll sy~tel11:
Lake Muthewb (Cajalco reservoir) ._ no.. ..............00 ......... ............__nm.....
Upper feeder pipe lines m...
Upper feprler tunnels. .................
Water 1:-ofteninj..!: und flhralion plant
Eagle Hock to Palos Verdes feeder n. ..... ............... . ...m..mm.
Pulos Verdes reservoir
Glendale to Santa Monica feeder.
Orange County feeder .. ...........mnn
Orange County reserv-oir _.
Morris reservoir connection _

100.0
100.0
100.0
55.0
. 100.0
....... 100.0
1.0
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