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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be here at the time the Upper Colorado Riv~r Commission met.

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the affairs of the Committee, ascertaining ,whether there was

any action on anything that should be taken and particularly
to receive a report from Arizona regarding :this litigation,
to discuss that and to take any action which may. seem appro-

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pria te. A report was made by .Mr. .Moe,ur before the Commission
this morning.

(Report made by .Mr. Moeur before the Upper

River Commission was as follows:)

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As you already know, most of you at

MR. MOEUR:

least, on the 13th of August of this year, the State of

Arizona filed in the Supreme Court of the United States, a

motion for leave to file a Bill of Complaint. The Bill of
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Complaint sets forth the position of Arizona on the matter

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the use of waters of the Lower Colorado River Basin.

is directed against the State of California , and a number of

irrigation districts in that state

now diverting water. We felt that this suit was justified at
this time; we hoped that the action meets with the approval
of you people up here.
Arizona has three times been before the Supreme

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Court of the United States in an attempt to 'get this matter
settled, and the Supreme Court has failed to take jurisdiction.