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<br />002/t21 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />passed the State Water Resources Act and created the State Water <br />Resources Board to administer the program. It was essentially a flood <br />control plan. In 1947 the Legislature authorized an expanded planning <br />effort, called the Statewide Water Resources Investigation, which called <br />fora detailed inventory of the available water resources, pres ent and <br />future water requirements, and the formulation of a plan for develop- <br />ment of the water resources to meet potential ultimate needs. <br /> <br />The results were published in,three bulletins: <br /> <br />Bulletin No.1 -- "Water Resources of California", 1951, a <br />detailed stream by stream inventory of <br />water res:ou,rces; <br /> <br />Bulletin No.2 "Water Utilization and Requirements of <br />California", 1955, determining the ultimate <br />State water demands, "the limiting phys ical <br />potentialftj <br /> <br />Bulletin No.3 -- "The California Water Plan", 1957, --"a <br />concept, not a blueprint" -- provided the <br />basis for all water planning to "meet the <br />requirements for water at some unspecified <br />but distant time in the future. . . " through <br />flexible, orderly development. <br /> <br />The California Water Plan is des igned "to include or supplement, rather <br />than supersede, existing water resource development works." Although <br />it does not "purport to include all possible water development projects <br />in the State... it serves to demonstrate that the full satisfaction of ulti- <br />mate water requirements in all parts of the State is physically possible <br />of accomplishment." <br /> <br />Until 1956, the State water agency was limited to planning. But in that <br />year the Legislature created the Department of Water Resources and <br />gave it broad authority. It was now ready to plan and construct projects. <br />Construction began on the Feather River Project, the first authorized <br />unit of the California Water Plan, in 1957. <br /> <br />From 1957 to 1960, DWR was engaged in an intens ive continuing planning <br />effort called the California Water Development Program. Economic con- <br />siderations were integrated into the previous studies of physical demands <br />and limitations. Planning now included land-use surveys, economic sur- <br />veys, agricultural costs of wate:r, quality of water, alternate canal routes <br />and sizes, and many other factors, all designed to evaluate the future <br /> <br />3 <br />