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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8200.300.40.A
Description
Colorado River Compact
Basin
Colorado Mainstem
Date
3/29/1922
Author
Colorado River Com.
Title
Hearing of the Colorado River Commission Convened at Grand Junction
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<br />'.' <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />Md. HOOVl::R: ','hey 1re Ell metters of gener21 ]:nowled:g9. <br /> <br /> <br />especially en~lneeribg" bio\"le1ge; 'I,e ere tryinG to get on a <br /> <br /> <br />basis of engineer.i,ilg facts. I want to be fair to the witness. <br /> <br />, <br />He can explein what he 8'f(J1S out to prove; we are asking the <br />witness I s opinion on tr:e em!tire case of tile lower and upper <br /> <br />river in its relation to :::10\1, and perhaps Hr. n2.rper can give <br /> <br />.." <br /> <br />an opir;ion. <br /> <br />MR. HA.~1R: I wo~ld not like to unuertake to st~te both <br /> <br />";"~ s <br />'\ <br />me <br /> <br />of the case because the gentlemen here might not egree with <br /> <br />if I undertf.ke to speak .for them. <br /> <br />Mil, C.I\!,:!)kt:II,: They ha're not r:1ade eny atiUe:npt to ste,te the <br /> <br />unper river side and of course, Mr. Harper, the only thing that <br /> <br />cIOn milit2te, it seems to me, against getting together in a 'con- <br /> <br />trect here, is the fear that there might not be weter enough in <br /> <br />the Color~Clo Ji,'sr t~ t2~:e care of all the irr1getion rights. <br /> <br />Now if th~re is a shortage; if there is a likelihood of a <br /> <br />short&ge, the things to do is to conserve all the water we can <br /> <br />in the river. You c<.n agree to that, can you not'? <br /> <br />MR. ,HLili:'ll:R: As 2 General ~rinciple. <br /> <br />MR. C.AI,.ov..b;LL: And the mere we hold up stream and irriGate <br /> <br /> <br />land \uth it, the more land we irrigate in total on the river <br /> <br />because of the return flow; what we send down to the lowermost <br /> <br />state, for instance, none of it ever ret~rns to the river, and it <br /> <br />would be impodsible in the case of river development, by irri- <br /> <br />gating the Im,sr stEtes firat, to develop the river; that would <br /> <br />G.J. <br />
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