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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is where their major uses are?

'CHAIRMAN STONE: The only uses inj the Basin are Palo

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Verde and one or two other small districts.1
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MR. MOEUR: But they have said on! several occasions
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when we have confronted them with the fact :they are running
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a lot of water into the Salton Sea, diverting more to the
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Imperial Irrigation District than they can foSSiblY use, that
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they are taking advantage of the fact that !the Upper Basin
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cannot use it and they are leaching out the~r land. But I

think the leaching of the land is beneficia~ consumptive use;
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if they divert it to leaoh the land and runl it into the Salton

Sea, I don't know but what that is a benefibial oonsumptive
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use. It seems to me it is. I
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MR. WILL: It is so far as the definition of oonsump
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, tive use with respect to California is oonoerned.
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MR. MOEUR: I don't think there would be any ques-
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tion about it beoause there is no return f1pw. If they oould

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1eaoh the land and throw it baok into the river again, that
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would be a different story; but they are th~owing it into the

Sal ton Sea.

I think it might be well for you :beople to consider-
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of course that is more an Upper Basin state$ deal than this
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Committee here--but I think it might be well to consider and

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see what their answer is in this ease, if w~ get into oourt;
and then your a.ction will be guided by what that answer is.
MR. WILL: Of course the position of the Upper Colo-
rado River Commission has already been made clear in this

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