WSP09662

• File Number: 8210.120
• Description: Colorado River Basin States Committee ‎(AKA Colorado River Compact Commission)‎
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 9/15/1952
• Author: CRBSC
• Title: Proceedings of the Meeting of the Colorado River Basin States Committee
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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that we are honored with the presence of t~e Chairman of the
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Upper Colorado River Commission"HarryW. ~ashore; the Chairma
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of the Arkansas Compact Administ~ion, General Hans Kramer; i

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and Mr. Berkley Johnson who is theChairma~ and Federal Repre-
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sentative on the Rio Grande Compact Commiss;ion, and also the
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Pecos Compact Commission. We are pleased ~o have you.

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MR. KRAMER: Your Committee is we11 chaperoned.
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CHAIRMAN STONE: Yes, by some vex1Y distinguished
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gentlemen.

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Now we drifted into a discussion :of the Imperial
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contract. May I ask Mr. Moeur, how did the~ operate this year
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in the absence of rules and regulations?

MR. MOEUR: The thing was turned :over actuallY about
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May 1st, and thEffpromulgated some rules and: regulations. Of
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course under the contract itself, they havel to follow a master
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schedule, and theupromulgated some rules a~d regulations but
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they didn't put all the things in there th~t we wanted in
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there.

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turned over as a completed Job. Holding

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whd is going to bear
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completed. It was
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w~ter in the canal at
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For instance, the question of
the additional expense--the canal isn't

its maximum capacity will be a necessity i~ they are going to

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produce power at Pilot Knob. They have go~ to hold the water
up there to produce that head. To operate !that canal at maxi-
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mum capacity, they have to put on addition~l lining and doa
lot of repairs to existing lining, an imprqvement that would
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be put in there solely for the purpose of making it a forebay
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