Reclamation District No. 684 v. East Bay Municipal Utility District

The East Bay Municipal Utility District comprises nine cities on the easterly side of San Francisco Bay, and was organized to perform certain municipal functions, one of which was to bring a publicly owned water supply from the Mokelumne River in Amador County to the Utility District for the use of the District and its inhabitants.

It was founded pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Utility District Act (Stats. 1921, p. 245), and it is conceded by the parties to this proceeding that it is a public agency.

The Utility District has lands within Reclamation District No. 684, upon which its pipe, conduits and other works are constructed for the purpose of conveying water to the East Bay cities.

Long prior to the acquisition of the lands above mentioned by the Utility District in Reclamation District No. 684, the District was organized and was existing by virtue of certain reclamation district laws of the state of California. It embraced within its exterior boundaries approximately ten thousand acres, all lying from six to fourteen feet below the level of the waters flowing in the adjacent San Joaquin River and its tributaries. The lands within the District were formerly what…