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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lost by transpiration, evaporation and natural stream losses

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before it ever reached the river. Californ.ia in its conten-
tions all the way through has contended that we should be
charged with the use of that salvaged watet.

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We have asked the Supreme Court to decide those two,
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questions together with the remaining ques~ion, which also i
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may be of some importanoe to you up here, and that is: Who I

stands the evaporation losses in those Low~r Basin reservoirs~
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California maintains that their oontracts are firm contraots,

that all evaporation losses should be charged to Arizona.
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is our oontention that those evaporation losses should be
shared ratably by the people who be ne fi t f~om that storage.

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Now I know you haven f t. got too mUch time to listEn to I
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I just wanted to give you the gener~
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idea or pioture of what we are trying to dOl. We hope the I
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this too muoh in detail.

Supreme Court when they oonvene in their Oc:tober term take

some aotion on this. We hope they will see' fit to grant this
motion and let us file this bill and thrash' this matter out
once and for all, and thus clear the decks for full deve10p-

ment of the river from its source to its oonfluence with the

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Gulf of California. If any of you are interested and don't
have copies of this bill, if you will let me know, or better
still if you will write to Ray Killian, Executive Secretary
of the Arizona Interstate stream Commission at Phoenix, we
will be glad to furnish you oopies.

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If there are any questions that a~y of you have
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here and now, I will be glad to answer them: if I canj if I
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