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Annual Allocation (in Acre-feet) of Available CAP Water
Percentage of
Non-Indian
To To Municipal and To Non-Indian Agricultural Use
Indian Use Industrial Use Agricultural Use Allocated to HID
309,828 640,000 Balance 7.67
On November 18, 1983, a water service subcontract relating
to distribution of Colorado River water was entered into between
the Interior Department and the CAP Water District, on the one
hand, and HID, on the other hand (the Subcontract). The
Harquahala Valley landowners were not parties to the Subcontract.
The Subcontract provides for the delivery over the course of 50
years by the CAP Water District to HID of the designated quantity
of available Colorado River water.
Although Harquahala Valley landowners were not named parties
to the Subcontract, the terms of the Subcontract were subject to
approval by Harquahala Valley landowners, and only owners of the
specified 33,251 acres of "eligible land" referred to in the
Subcontract were entitled to receive an allocation of Colorado
River water from HID. The partnership’s land qualified as part
of the eligible acres, and thus under the Subcontract, the
partnership was entitled to receive each year from HID a
specified quantity of available Colorado River water.
Under the Subcontract and Arizona law, each year the
available Colorado River water that was allocated through the CAP
Water District to HID and that HID elected to receive from the
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