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Hon. Bobert A, Allen F&gt 3 of ©00 gallons per i ® per consumer, 1% Is obvious that the new oetiflBtt&rs fir 1961 will require am additional supply of 1,128,000 gallens per day. It must he remembered that the §©0 a l l on per dsy per consumer average Is based on the yearly consideration of dally consumption. Obviously, ^ueh ©00 gallon m day flours would be materially increased during such peak periods as » r s hereinabove referred to where there vets a peak consumption of 18,000,000 gallons per day. From a eonslderfctlaa of the periods of rater short­ages 1m 1950 and the average consumption of rater during the month of July 19©1, It is obvious that the Water Company will hare ©erlous difficulty serving Its present consumers. The Commission east realise the fact that the water Company east not develop any additional eouroet of « k p and must continue to deplete Its only present source namely, the underground basin In the las Vegas Valley* It will be recalled that fir. Utemmm W. Robinson, District Engineer, 8* 8* Ceolegloal Survey for the Ground Water Division, testified In the hearing in Case He, ISO?, that the underground souree of water Is recharged from rain and sa m at the rate of approximately 30,000 to 30,000 aere feet per year. Be further testified that since 1946 there has been an excess of withdrawal of rater over the reeh&rge of rater la the las Vegas Valley Water Basin. At Page 123 of the transcript of the above-sectioned hearing, Hr* Robinson testi­fied that the measured withdrawal for the year 1948 m e 44,718 acre feet and in addition thereto there wist be borne In mind an wmeaeured withdrawn! of approximately 6,000 to 8,000 more feet, For the year 1949, he testified to a measured with­drawal of 34,466 acre feet to which wist be added the above-mentioned unaeaeured vithdraral. It Is apparent from the testimony of Hr. Robinson, whloh ras in part substantiated by the testimony of Mr. Ruffe Shamberger. at that time Asst, btate Engineer of the State of Nevada, that since 1946 there has been an overdraft of voter from the voter sou roe available to the Water Company and the City of Las Vegas and that this situation has grown increasingly worse year by year. The foregoing overdraft of rater from the Las Vegas Valley Water Basin will become increasingly verse instead of bettor. The Federal-State Cooperative Snow Surveys and Irrigation Water Forecasts for Nevada, which I obtained from