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RESOLUTION No. 64-34
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA
OPPOSING THE MODIFIED PACIFIC SOUTHWEST WATER PLAN AND
ENDORSING THE POSITION OF THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT
IN OPPOSITION TO SAID PLAN.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District
of Southern California has issued
a statement
opposing Secretary of Interior
Udall's Modified Pacific Southwest
Water plan
because it would result in the
abandonment of the District's Colorado River Aqueduct; and
WHEREAS, this City Council also deems it unthinkable that any
Federal or State administration should advance, as part of a regional water
plan, a proposal which would render useless an aqueduct now providing an
indispensable source of water for the 9,000,000 people of the District, of
which the City of Costa Mesa is a part; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Water District believes the Udall plan
is seriously deficient because of the absence of any consideration of the
possibility of transporting water into the Pacific Southwest from sources other
than Northern California, such as the Snake River, and urges that such studies
be made; and
WHEREAS, the plan is critically defective because it fails to
recognize and preserve the rights of existing projects in the State of Cali-
fornia to priorities to the annual consumption use of 4.4 million acre-feet
of water from the Colorado River;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa, that this City Council concurs wholeheartedly with the position
taken by the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California in opposition to the modified Pacific Southwest Water Plan; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
is hereby directed to transmit copies of this resolution to representatives of
this area in the State Legislature and in Congress.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of April, 1964.
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Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the
above and foregoing Resolution No. 64-34 was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 6th day of April, 1964.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa, this 7th day of April, 1964.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
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