1948-16071
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RESOLUTION NO. 1607
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST BY THE ORANGE COUNTY
COMMITTEE ON ADDITIONAL WATER SUPPLY.
WHEREAS: The ground water basin underlying metropolitan Orange
County is overdrawn to the extent that salt water encroachment has
destroyed the usefulness of wells along its coastal fringe and
threatens to move further inland, and
WHEREAS: Over SO% of the water supplies of the cities, suburb-
an communities and agricultural enterprises of Orange County are
pumped from said ground water basin or diverted from the surface
flows of the Santa Ana River; and the economic structure of the
county is dependent upon these waters, and
WHEREAS: Said river is the major source of replenishment for
said ground water basin, and
WHEREAS: The Orange County Flood Control District in coopera-
tion with the Orange County Water District and the major water com-
panies has initiated a project to salvage approximately g,000 acre
feet of water heretofore wasted by evaporation and uneconomic plant
use in the Prado Basin, and have expended in excess of $300,000
therefor, and
WHEREAS: Said Prado Basin is under the ownership or control of
the Federal Government in connection with the Prado Retarding Basin,
and subject to laws authorizing its use for recreational purposes,
supplementary to its use for Flood Control, and
WHEREAS: Recreational uses which would require ponded water,
high ground water levels or areas devoted to the growing of water
loving plants would continue the wastage of water now and heretofore
existing there and prevent the salvage of such by the cooperative
project aforesaid;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED That the City Council of the City of
Anaheim, does hereby request the Federal Government, through its ap-
propriate agency, to determine that the use of the waters of the
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Santa Ana River for municipal, domestic, irrigation, and basin re-
plenishment are paramount to its use for recreational purposes and
to prevent the use of federally owned lands in the Prado Basin for
any purpose which would cause a wastage of water or impair the
ability of the aforesaid salvage project to recover evapo-tranapira-
tion losses for use in Orange County.
The foregoing Resolution was approved and signed by me this
llth day of May, 1948.
ATTEST:
Ci
lerk of t e /lry of Anaheim
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE as.
CITY OF ANAHEIM
I, CHARLES E. GRIFFITH, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim,
held on the llth day of May, 1948, by the following vote of the
members thereof:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Pearson, Van Wagoner and Honey.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None.
ABSENT AND NOT VOTING: COUNCILMEN: Heying and Pace.
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim
approved and signed said Resolution on the llth day of May, 1948.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said City of Anaheim this llth day of May, 1948.
Mayor of the City of Anaheim
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erk of the r of Anaheim