LONG v. SALT RIVER VALLEY WATER USERS' ASS'N

No. 86-1510.

820 F.2d 284 (1987)

John F. LONG; John F. Long Homes, Inc.; John F. Long Properties, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SALT RIVER VALLEY WATER USERS' ASSN., an Arizona corporation; Karl F. Abel; John R. Lassen; Marcel J. Boulais; William W. Arnett; Frederick J. Ash; Germain H. Ball; Bruce B. Brooks; John L. Burton, Jr.; Earnest C. Cheatham; Thomas P. Hurley; Alexander M. Conovaloff; Thomas Finley; Thomas Fitch; Stanford F. Hartman; J.S. Hoopes; Rudolph Johnson; Jay B. Neely; Otto B. Neely; Gilbert R. Rogers; William Rousseau; William P. Schrader; Leo C. Smith; John M. Williams, Jr.; Arizona Public Service Company, an Arizona corporation; So. Cal. Edison, a California corporation; Public Service Company of New Mexico, a New Mexico Corporation; El Paso Electric Company, a Texas corporation; Department of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles, a California corporation; Southern California Public Power Authority, a California Joint Power Agency; City of Phoenix; City of Glendale; City of Mesa; City of Scottsdale; City of Tempe; the Town of Youngstown, a municipal corporation; Salt River Project and Power District; Karl F. Abel, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams S. Hawgood, II and Marcia Horn Yavitz, Phoenix, Ariz., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Donn G. Kessler, David L. White, Daniel J. McAuliffe, Robert B. Hoffman and William H. Anger, Phoenix, Ariz., for defendants-appellees.

Before CHAMBERS, POOLE and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.


WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs allege that an agreement providing for the sale of nonpotable treated sewage water (effluent) violates the Reclamation Act of 1902 (1902 Act), Pub.L. No. 57-161, 32 Stat. 388 (codified as amended in scattered sections of 43 U.S.C.), the Boulder Canyon Project Act (BCPA), 43 U.S.C. §§ 617-619b, and the Colorado River Basin Project Act (CRBPA), 43 U.S.C. §§ 1501-1556. We hold that these statutes do not confer a...

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