HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 1977 RESOLUTION NO. 1977
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH APPROVING
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,
is pending before the Congress and such bill if enacted would 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 million 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 Southwest region by
providing for the transfer of water from areas of surplus to areas of
deficiency; and
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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 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 Huntington Beach that the Pacific Southwest Project Act
proposed by the Six Agency Committee as a means for augmenting and
developing the water resources of the Colorado River be approved and
endorsed; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution
be sent to Senators Thomas H. Kuchel and Clair Engle, to the members
of the California Delegation in the House of Representatives, to Governor
Edmund G. Brown, to Attorney General Stanley Mosk, to Administrator
of the Resources Agency of the State of California Hugo Fisher, to
Director of Water Resources William E. Warne, to members of the
California Legislature, to each of the constituent agencies of the District,
and to the Boards of Supervisors of Counties and to City Councils of
Cities within the District.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting held on the 1st day of
JiAn>q, 1964.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City C1 k
George Shibata
Assistant City Attorney
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA. )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
I, PAUL C. JONES, the duly elected, qualified and acting
City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of
the City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the whole number
of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is five;
that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative
vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a regular meeting thereof held on the is t ` day of
June 1964.
AYES: Councilmen:
Welch, Gisler, Stewart, Shipley
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Lambert
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of
the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California