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History: Thomas Blythe made these first filings on the CO River, 1877, in CA; thus, <br />highly coveted. <br />--Water district: Unquantified 1`t priority water rights fro use on 104,500 acres. <br />See Recitals: 3.85 million acre-feet per year of consumptive use. <br />--Talang five acre feet consumptive <br />--Governance: Votes based on assessed valuation of land; <br />--35 fanulies control the bulls of this. <br />--tight control <br />--Metro Water District of Southern CA: one buyer that combines Los Angeles and San <br />Diego; <br />--Water rightdo not have to go through a change of use: beneficial use =beneficial use: <br />no change of use for any of this; <br />--Done by district: districts very large; <br />--Law of the River: <br />--Major objections that they wanted to achieve: Metro came to them: <br />--Much of this revolves around a willing group of sellers; long term renters and a willing <br />buyer; <br />--Progranulling elements: <br />"Wet plow"preserve ground by rotating. <br />--Created a market for people who did not want to get in right away <br />--Following: gives predetermined kind of setting <br />--What happens at the end of 35 years: open to renegotiation? <br />See pvid.org <br />Paid going rate: over 3000/acre; <br />Imperial Valley about 5000 acre feet; both Imperial Valley and Palo Verde get their water <br />from CO River Aqueduct. <br />Using excess of water what these guys could not use <br />Review of payments: <br />No weeds, no phreatophytes anywhere. <br />Land value: $3000 per acre; therefore, farm is bought. <br />Land vahies = 6-800o per acre. <br />Previous programs: <br />Big differences: governance-it's a district, whereas we cover lots of <br />No obligation for return flows <br />Webster: did the county change the values? <br />Didn't come up. <br />District very tough on weeds <br />Metro has bought 3-7000 acres; all of this is in following. <br />RE: Quantification agreement limits <br />--all flood irrigation, laser leveled <br />Bill: What do we do with this? Do we have a fallowing subcommittee? Survey to see if <br />any kind of interest? <br />Janet Bell: Report from SWSI IL ..this could be a base for moving forward. <br />4 <br />