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RESOLUTION NO. 3682
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
AFPROVING AND ENDORSING THE PACIFIC
SOUTHWEST PROJECT ACT PROPOSED BY
THE SIX AGENCY COMMITTEE REPRESENTING
THE CALIFORNIA USERS OF COLORADO
RIVER WATER.
WHEREAS, S. 1658 authorizing the Central Arizona Project
now pending before the Congress would, if enacted, create serious
water supply problems for Southern California and would impede the
solution of the water supply problems of the Pacific Southwest and
the entire Colorado River Basin; and,
WHEREAS, Secretary of the Interior Udall has proposed a
Pacific Southwest Water Plan which, if adopted, would ultimately
result in abandonment of the Metropolitan Water District's Colorado
River Aqueduct which now furnishes a source of water for nine mil-
lion people, without assuring an adequate replacement supply of
water for Southern California and without providing a solution to
the many other existing and future Colorado River water supply
problems; and,
WHEREAS, the Six Agency Committee representing the users
of Colorado River water in Southern California has caused to be
drafted a proposed Pacific Southwest Project Act for the purpose of
meeting the present and future water demands of the Pacific South-
west region by providing for the transfer of water from areas of
surplus to areas of deficiency; and,
WHEREAS, said proposed act would provide for protection
of eXisting California uses of Colorado River water to the extent
of 4,400,000 acre-feet per year, would authorize the Central Arizona
Project, Dixie Project, and Southern Nevada Water Supply Project and
Moapa Valley Pumping Project, and would require investigation and
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report by the Secretary of the Interior as to additional supplies
of water to sustain the present development of the region, provide
for normal growth, improve the quality of the water in the River
and reduce the potential problems for the Upper Basin of the Colorado
River;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA,
CALIFORNIA, DOES -RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the Pacific Southwest Project Act (S. 2760
by Senator Kuchel) proposed by the Six Agency Committee as a means
for augmenting and developing the water resources of the Colorado
River be and the same is hereby approved and endorsed.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this resolution and shall cause certified copies hereof to be
forwarded to the Honorable Edmund G. Brown, Governor of the State
of California, to Thomas H. Kuchel and Clair Engle, United States
Senators, and to Glenard P. Lipscomb, Congressman representing the
24th District, to State Senator Thomas M. Rees, to State Assembly-
men Houston I. Flournoy and John.L. E. Collier, to the Metropolitan
Water District and to the League of California Cities.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held
on the 3rd day of June , 1964, by the affirmative vote of at
least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES:
Councilmen Balser, Considine, Forman and Reibold
NOES:
None
ABSENT: Mayor Turner
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SIGNED AND APPROVED
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