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4. Upstream-Downstream Conflicts, 1930–1960

Author : William Blomquist

Published in: The Realities of Adaptive Groundwater Management

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Abstract

Conflict and compromise with downstream water users in Orange County, California, has been a defining characteristic of and shaping influence on groundwater use and management in Chino Basin. The period from the 1930s through the 1950s described in this chapter featured recurring litigation with Orange County interests, which spurred further organization and collaboration among Chino Basin water users including the formation of numerous water districts. Groundwater reliance in Chino Basin intensified, which contributed to the beginnings of groundwater overdraft there. By the mid-1900s, studies by the California Department of Water Resources sharpened water users’ understanding of what was and was not possible in terms of the development and use of local supplies and contributed to the start of imported water use in the Santa Ana River watershed.

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next chapter Setting the Stage for a Chino Basin Management Program: Changes in Water Use, and the Third Santa Ana River Litigation, 1960–1969
Footnotes
1
San Bernardino County Flood Control District, 1976, p. 17.
 
2
Orange County Water District Annual Report, June 1983.
 
3
Quoted in Moreland, 1972, p. 12.
 
4
California Department of Public Works 1930, p. 12.
 
5
Ibid., p. 13.
 
6
California Department of Water Resources, 1959, p. 35.
 
7
California Department of Public Works 1930, pp. 17–18.
 
8
California Department of Water Resources, 1959.
 
9
Ibid., p. 63.
 
10
Association of California Water Agencies (1985) ACWA’s 75-Year History. Sacramento, CA: Association of California Water Agencies, p. 202.
 
11
Ibid., p. 201.
 
12
Ibid., p. 189.
 
13
Another municipal water district was formed in the upper watershed area, but that one does not overlie Chino Basin. The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District, covering the eastern two-thirds of the Upper Area on the Bunker Hill-San Timoteo side of the San Jacinto Fault, was incorporated on February 17, 1954 under the Municipal Water District Act of 1911. The incorporated cities of Rialto, Colton, Grand Terrace, San Bernardino, Loma Linda and Redlands, as well as the unincorporated communities of Bloomington, Highland, and Yucaipa, are within its boundaries. This District never annexed to MWD, but instead contracted with the State in 1960 for State Project water from northern California, receiving an ultimate entitlement (in 1991) of 102,600 acre-feet per year. This district is important in the overall governance and management of the Santa Ana River and watershed, and therefore affects Chino Basin but is not directly involved in Chino Basin groundwater management.
 
14
California Department of Water Resources, 1959, pp. 49–50.
 
15
This remained the case through the rest of the decade. See California, State of, Assembly Interim Committee on Water, 1962, p. 28: “About half of the [Upper Santa Ana River] area has annexed to the Metropolitan Water District, but these annexed areas use only about 65,000 acre-feet of imported water. Most of the water users continue to pump the cheaper ground water.” Cost was not the only factor. At the time, MWD had only Colorado River water to provide to its member agencies, and the local groundwater was of much better quality. “As a consequence, there is limited advantage, if not an actual disadvantage, in spreading of presently [sic] available imported water, depending on the quantities spread.” (ibid.)
 
16
Deliveries to the Bunker Hill-San Timoteo half of the upper area were virtually nil as a result of San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District’s decision not to annex to MWD. San Bernardino chose to wait for the completion of the State Water Project, and to contract directly with the State for deliveries of that water from northern California. San Bernardino was one of the first applicants to the State Water Resources Control Board for a permit to use State Project water for groundwater recharge – in the Bunker Hill basin, north and east of Chino Basin. California Assembly Interim Committee on Water, 1962, p. 29.
 
17
California Department of Water Resources, 1959, p. 93.
 
18
173 Cal.App. 2d 137, 343 P.2d 450 aff’d on rehearing, 188 Cal.App.2d 566, 10 Cal.Rptr. 899 (1961).
 
19
Appellants’ Brief, Orange County Water District v. City of Riverside et al., p. 2.
 
20
There is a very small area in the northeast corner of Chino Basin that lies within San Bernardino County but outside the service area of the Chino Basin Municipal Water District (now named Inland Empire Utilities Agency).
 
Literature
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Metadata
Title
Upstream-Downstream Conflicts, 1930–1960
Author
William Blomquist
Copyright Year
2021
Book
The Realities of Adaptive Groundwater Management

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-63722-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-63723-1

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63723-1_4