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Subcontract, at a rate, with certain adjustments, per acre-foot
of water pegged to what HID was required to pay the CAP Water
District.
Each year, HID, with approval of the CAP Water District
could sell or exchange “excess” water (namely, Colorado River
water available under the Subcontract that the Harquahala Valley
landowners did not wish to receive) but only to landowners within
Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima Counties, Arizona. Funds HID realized
on sale of excess water, over and above its costs, could not be
retained by HID but were required to be paid to the CAP Water
District to pay down the debt obligation of HID to the CAP Water
District.
The Harquahala Valley landowners could sell their beneficial
interests in Colorado River water rights to third parties but
only as part of a sale of their ownership interests in the land.
Under the Subcontract, it was provided that all uses of
Colorado River water by water districts and landowners to whom
the water was allocated and distributed had to be consistent with
Federal Government and CAP Water District directives regarding
Colorado River water.
Under the Subcontract, the Interior Department retained the
right to sell to other water districts, to landowners, and to
others Colorado River water that was not distributed to those
with specific allocations under the Subcontract.
In 1984, HID contracted with the Interior Department for
construction of a water distribution system in and about
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