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2000
Title
Layperson's Guide to California Water
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Interstate & Federal
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California Water Education Foundation
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Layperson's Guide to California Water
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<br />Chronolo <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />ld- <br /> <br /> <br />~ <br />- :), <br />\, ~ <br />""II <br />~--'::~~, <br /> <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />1769 First permanent Spanish settlements estab- <br />lished. Water rights established by Spanish <br />law. <br />1848 Gold discovered on the American River. <br />Treaty of Guadalupe signed, California ceded <br />from Mexico, California republic established. <br />1850 California granted statehood. <br />Office of Surveyor General established and <br />charged with planning water projects. <br />1860 Legislature authorizes the formation of levee <br />and reclamation districts. <br />1880 First flood control plan for the Sacramento <br />Valley developed by State Engineer William <br />Hammond Hall. <br />1884 Federal Circuit Court decision in Woodruff v. <br />North Bloomfield, requires termination of <br />hydraulic mining debris discharges into <br />California rivers. <br />1886 California Supreme Court decision in Lux v. <br />Haggin reaffirms legal preeminence of riparian <br />rights, upheld again 40 years later. <br />1892 Conservationist John Muir founds the Sierra Club. <br />1901 First California deliveries from the Colorado <br />River made to farmland in the Imperial Valley. <br />1902 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation established by the <br />Reclamation Act of 1902. <br />1905 First bond issue for the city of Los Angeles' <br />Owens Valley project; second bond issue in <br />1907 approved tor actual construction. <br />Flooding on the Colorado River diverts the <br />river into Imperial Valley. forming tOday's Salton <br />Sea. <br />1908 City ot San Francisco's filings for Hetch Hetchy <br />project approved. <br />1913 Los Angeles Aqueduct begins service. <br />1920 Col. Robert B. Marshall of the U.S. Geological <br />Survey proposes a statewide plan for water <br />conveyance and storage. <br />1922 Colorado River Compact of 1922 appropriates <br />7.5 million acre-feet per year to each of the <br />river's two basins. <br />1923 Hetch Hetchy Valley flooded to produce water <br />supply for San Francisco despite years of pro- <br />test by John Muir and other conservationists. <br />East Bay Municipal Utility District formed. <br />1928 Congress passes the Boulder Canyon Act. <br />authorizing construction of Boulder (Hoover) <br />Dam and other facilities on the Colorado River. <br />Federal government assumes most costs of <br />the Sacramento Valley Flood Control System <br />with passage of the Rivers and Harbors Act. <br />California Constitution amended to require that <br />all water use be "reasonable and beneficial." <br />The St. Francis Dam collapsed and tloods the <br />Santa Clara Valley and kills more than 450 <br />people. <br /> <br />Worst drought of the 20th century begins in <br />California and ends in 1934. This drought is <br />later used as a measure for the storage and <br />transfer capacity of all major water projects. <br />1931 State Water Plan published. outlining utiliza- <br />tion of water resources on a statewide basis. <br />County of Origin Law passed. guaranteeing <br />counties the right to reclaim their water from <br />an exporter if it is ever needed in the area of <br />origin. <br />1933 Central Valley Project (CVP) Act passed. <br />1934 Construction starts on the All-American Canal <br />in the Imperial Valley (first deliveries in 1941) <br />and on Parker Dam on the Colorado River. <br />1937 Passage of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937 <br />authorizes construction of the initial features <br />of the CVP by the U.S. Army Corps of <br />Engineers. <br />Legislature creates Colorado River Board of <br />California. <br />1940 Metropolitan Water District of Southern <br />California's Colorado River Aqueduct <br />completed, first deliveries in 1941. <br />1944 Mexican-American Treaty guarantees Mexico <br />1.5 million acre-feet per year from the <br />Colorado River. <br />1945 State Water Resources Control Board (State <br />Board) created. <br />1951 State authorizes the Feather River Project Act <br />(later to become the State Water Project). <br />First deliveries from Shasta Dam to the <br />San Joaquin Valley. <br />1955 Flood in the Sacramento Valley kills 38 people. <br />1957 California Water Plan published. <br />1959 Delta Protection Act enacted to resolve some <br />issues of legal boundaries. salinity control <br />and water exportation. <br />1960 Burns Porter Act ratified by voters; 51.75 <br />million bond issue to assist statewide water <br />development. <br />1963 Arizona v. California lawsuit decided by the <br />U.S. Supreme Court in Arizona's favor, <br />allocating 2.8 million acre-feet of Colorado <br />River water per year to Arizona. <br />1964 Partially completed Oroville Dam helps save <br />Sacramento Valley from flooding. <br />1966 Construction begins on New Melones Dam <br />on the Stanislaus River after 20 years of <br />controversy over the reservoir's size and <br />environmental impacts; completed in 1978. <br />1968 Congress authorizes the Central Arizona <br />Project (CAP) to deliver 1.5 million acre-feet <br />01 Colorado River water a year to central and <br />southern Arizona. <br />Congress passes the Wild and Scenic Rivers <br />Act. <br />
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