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~'! '. - ,-'.,', '-'~'.' , . " ... LEEDS, HILL AND JEWETT. INC. CONSULTING ENGINEERS TELEPHONE MAclSON 6"9664 CABLE LEEDSHILL SAN I'AANcrSCD WAL.TER G. SCHULZ Vice Presidei'll HARVEY O. BANKS Vice President LOS ANGELES AYMOND A. HILL President ~OHN Q. ,JEWETT Exec. Vice President OMAR..J, LH_LEVANG Vice President 609 SOUTH GRAND AVENUE LOS ANGELES 17. CALIFORNIA March 7, 1961. Mr. Stanley Mosk, Attorney General of the State of California, 104 Library and Courts Building, Sacramento 14, California. Dear Sir: Pursuant to requests from your office, I have reviewed the Report of the Special Master to the Supremte Court of the United States in the action, State of Arizona vs. State of California, published and un- published re'ports of Federal and Sta.te Agencies, and my own report of 1953 to the State of Colorado, to determine the impact of the recommended decree on California, on the other States of the Lower Basin, and upon the States of the Upper Basin. There is submitted herewith my report on the impact of this decree on the States of the Upper Basin. This has been liE1ited primarily to the extent of the shortage of water to be borne by the Upper Basin and the resulting impact on each Upper Basin State, if California's existing_tl~es are not to be curtailed under the apportionment formula recom;;ende-d by the Special Master. The limitations imposed upon Upper Basin dev~lop~~- ments by physical conditions and by the provisions of Article III (c) and (d) of the Colorado River Compact can readily be evaluated from the data presented in this report. In brief, I find, if California's existing uses are not to be curtailed _ under the recommended decree, tha.t the water supply available to the Upper Basin from the Colorado River System willbe exhausted ~ existing projects, by projects under construction, by projects already authorized and other projects proposed for construction during the next twenty years. Respectfully submitted, 1Vff~ RAYMOND A. HILL RAH/ am