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<br />~ ," -j' <br />.(.. 'oJ... <br />74 ~l E T R 0 POll TAN W ATE R f) 1ST HIe T <br /> <br />out individual passes, A similar courtesy was extended to visitors <br />accompanied and sponsored by members of the Board of Directors <br />throughout the year. Members of the Board of Directors continued <br />to be provided with permanent identification cards, A record was <br />maintained of all persons entering or leaving aqueduct closed areas, <br />including regularly employed personnel. <br /> <br />Miscellaneous o-ctivitics <br />To the end that full information concerning the policies and <br />activities of the District be made available to the public, there <br />were issued throughout the year authoritative news releases to <br />the press, Printed reports, booklets, and folders setting forth <br />factual information concerning the Colorado River aqueduct and <br />the District were distribnted to individuals and organizations, <br />The District continued to receive requests from business, patri- <br />otic, and technical groups for speakers, and these speaking engage. <br />ments were filled by staff members. <br /> <br />A 1I?lexation <br />The number of inquiries from areas outside the bonndaries of <br />the District for information relating to annexation was consider-. <br />ably greater than in :lny one year during the past decade. The <br />number of such inquiries appeared to be a direct reflection of a <br />growing realization throughout Southern California that local <br />water supplies in many sections rapidly were becoming overdrawn <br />and undependable, <br />In response to an oflkial communication from the Board of <br />Directors of the San Diego County Water Authority, in which <br />permission to annex to the Metropolitan Water District was re- <br />quested, the District Board of Directors in an informal letter on <br />April 5, 1946 set forth the terms and conditions upon which the <br />annexation of the San Diego Connty Water Anthority would be <br />approved, Subsequently, members of the engineering and legal <br />staffs of the District and the Authority conferred and carried for- <br />ward the necessary steps preliminary to an annexation election, <br />which tentatively was set for the latter part of 1946, The San <br />Diego County Water Authority includes the City of San Diego and <br />six other cities and areas, namely, Oceanside, National City, Chula <br />Vista, the La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irrigation <br />Di;,tricl, the Lakeside Irrigation District, and the Fallbrook Public <br />Utility District. <br />Construction of a water line to deliver water from the' west <br />