WSPC05416

• File Number: 8064
• Description: Indian Water Rights
• State: CO
• Date: 5/1/1984
• Author: Western Governors As
• Title: Indian Water Rights in the West
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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NOTES - CALIFORNIA

Arizona v. California

Note that these numbers may increase when boundaries

for these reservations are finalized. The Chemehuevi

Reservation boundary is not being challenged and the

water right associated therewith is final.

Note also that the numbers contained in the "Potential
Irrigable Acres" column are, in this instance,
"practically irrigable acres" as that term has been
judicially defined.

b.

Information from unpublished tabulation entitled
"Indian Irrigation Projects Presently Included in the
BIA Irrigation Construction Program - October 1975,"
compiled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Copy pro-
vided to Western States Water Council by the Depart-
ment of Interior's Office of Water Policy.

c,

Id. Footnote 27 to the document states: "A proposed
action being considered by the Federal Power Commission
regarding the use of the water of the San Luis Rey
River in Southern California could result in con-
siderable expansion of irrigation facilities of the
La Jolla, San Pasqual, Pauma, and Pala Reservations.