WSP10241

• 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
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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will tell us about enothcr p8culiar condition cf river flow, E.nd
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he can g:ve you,rt11(J",-ie'Niol of i1iiol :::)):ivt:te principals, who are men

of judgment and considej:able nchie'!eG'ent, Gnd vlho Hill show hoVl

they re3ard the busine3s of hundling the river.

MR. CHART,J!:S RUMP; General lknager, Red 1,ands Land Co" Red

Lands, Colorado: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Co~nission:

I will refer to these notes in order to mal:e CODparison with some

of the Mesa Innds we have developed here, end sf. ow the relation
it bears to a Great deal of t~e other land. I feel th&t at this

point, it is 'llf'\ost a direct .;ompari8on on a smaller scale, with

the development of the antira Colorado iUver. By putting all the

upper land under irrigation, givine it the prirrity, will maintain

a more uniform flow of the Colorado ;{i\'er lower down.

(M~. Rump then read the following statement)
The Red Lands project is located on the clouth side of the

Colorado River, just west of Gr&nd Junction, on a mesa about

200 feet above the ~olorado ~iver and is crapaole of irrigating

4,000 ao~eB.

'1:he water is di"erted from the Cunnison Liiver under a decree'

dated July 31, 1905 I for 670 sec and-feet. Thi iol wG.ter is carr ie d
through Ii power canal for e distance of four <inc. a half mileS and

is ')assed through a h;idro-electric :plant end 0.11 but 75 second-fee:

is turned into the Colorado ni,er through the tail race. lifty

second-feet of the water Jiverted i~ raised by ?umps an elevation

of 127-1/2 fe~t. In addition to this lift there Brc three other

sub-stations that raise 30 second-feet of this water 150 feet to

highel- lifts.

G.J.