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RESOLUTION NO. 64-48
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, APPROVING AND ENDORSING THE PACIFIC
SOUTHWEST PROJECT ACT PROPOSED BY THE SIX AGENCY
COMMITTEE REPRESENTING THE CALIFORNIA USERS OF
COLORADO RIVER WATER.
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, of
which the City of Costa Mesa is a part, has approved and endorsed the Pacific
Southwest Project Act for the users of Colorado River Water; and
WHEREAS, S. 1658, authorizing the Central Arizona Project, is pending
before the Congress and such bill if enacted would create serious 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
Colorado River Aqueduct, which now furnishes a source of water for nine million
people, without assuring an adequate replacement supply 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 Southwest 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 users 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 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, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa, that the Pacific Southwest Project proposed by the Six Agency
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Committee as a means for augmenting and developing the water resources of the
Colorado River be, and the same is hereby approved and endorsed; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa,
is hereby directed to send copies of this Resolution to Senators Thomas R.
Kuchel and Clair Engel, to Representatives James B. Utt, To Governor Edmund
G. Brown, State Senator John A. Murdy, Jr., and Assemblyman Robert E. Badham.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, this 18th day of May, 1964.
May r of the City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST: Q
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
CityC^ lerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
and foregoing Resolution No. 64-48 was duly and regularly passed
and adopted by
the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, at a
regular meeting
held on the 18th
aay of May, 1964.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and
affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa, this 19th day of May,
1964.
CityC^ lerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa