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<br />'- '';;'. '-~-',~ .... <br /> <br />~ <br />C\l <br />o::t' <br />~"'" <br /> <br />(::...: <br />C",;J <br /> <br />In general, the intent of the compact is to define and determine <br /> <br />the relati~ ri~lts of the respective states, to use and consume the <br /> <br />waters of the Rio Grn.."1de River. The intent of' the engineering <br /> <br />advisers a.ppears to be to so define the rights of Colorado, for <br /> <br />example, as toe a) parmi t of continuing present .practioes, and (b) permit <br /> <br />of such adlliti<nal Mas as may be made of supplies whioh, in the paS't. <br /> <br />may have been wasted at the lo_r end of the river basin. It appearS, <br /> <br />from an examination of the data, that reoognition ot present uses tar' <br /> <br />otrtwei&lJ.s the importanoe of the benof1ts whioh might result f'rOlll <br />f'w'ther utililllat:1oo of previously W8lted S'tree.m flows. Since the <br />definitions of present praotiaes, or tho effects thereof, in the san <br /> <br />Luis Valley, appear to have been oarefully end a.ooura-rely defined, and <br /> <br />sinee unoertainty might result frOlll a provisi on under whioh, af"ter <br />five years, the obligation of Colorado might be altered, there is a; <br />question all to the wisdom. of inoluding the suggested provl$im. <br />19. In the a.pplioation at the Rio Grande and Conejos delivery <br /> <br />sohedules, the engineering o.dvisers rec01l!!1Wnd that appropriate <br /> <br />adjuS'trnents muS't be made forI <br /> <br />(a) Any tra11s-111ounts.in div01"si0ll3J -.. which lilight <br />better be defined as water exported frOl11 or imported to <br />the basin, aooompanied by explrmations of julli; what <br />adjustMents shall be made, . <br /> <br />(b) Any change in location of gauging stationsl and <br /> <br />(0) "Any new or increased depletion of natural runoff <br />at gaging stations above Loba:tos"J - ..which <br />statement is not clear, und ~~ght readily become a <br />fruit,tu1 source of controversy. <br /> <br />-8- <br />