WSP08975

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/15/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #17
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

Ferry delivery, even up te the point of total absorption of the

streams whieh are tributary to the lower river. This figure

leaves you the privilege of absorbing the tributaries in your

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country, and also of reeeiving this additional amount of water.

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If you confine your mind merely to those figures as the total sup-

ply for tho lower territory, your objection would be good, but all

of yeur lower streams are left to you completely, - something that

is being denied to us above. It loaves to your territory the use

of those streams. You are unfetterod in the entire absorption of

the lower streams, to the extent of absolute dominion thereof,

while there is imposed upon us the burden, whether an abundance

of water is supplied by Nature Dr not, of meeting this guaranty.

The burden of saying that we will do such a thing, and if we fail,

then we violate the compact, leaves upon us the burden of opening

our structures, and porhaps utterly depriving ourselves of water,

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to comply with tho contract.

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1AR. HOOVER: Judge Davis has estimated the needs in the

southern basin, from the Colorado River, at five million seven

hundred thousand.

1.!R. S. no DAVIS, lIr. Chairman, if I may,- is there any

reason, on the part of tbe upper states absolutely guaranteeing

the lower states, irrespeetive of precipitation conditions, that

they shall have enough water fer their needs? It seems to me they

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must take their ehances the same as we. And Mr. Norviol, on the

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basis of that,- not that I want to got into a debate between you

and myself,- there is nothing unfair in the idea that, if we are

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