WSP10450

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/24/1922
• Author: C.R. Compact States
• Title: Colorado River Compact, Signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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ARTICLE IV. (id Inasmuch as the Colorado River has
ceased to be navigable for commerce and the reservation of
its waters for navigation would seriously limit the develop-
m$nt of its basin, the use of its waters for purposes of
navigation shall be subservient to the uses of such waters
for domestic, agricultural, and power purposes. If the Congress
shall not consent to this paraqraph, the other provisions of
this compact shall nevertheless remain binding.

(b) Subject to the provisions of this compact, water of
the Colorado River system may be impounded and used for the
generation of electrical power, but such impounding and use
shall be subservient to the use and consumption of such water
for agricultural and domestic purposes and shall net interfere
with or prevent use for such dominant purposes.

(c) The provisions of this article shall not apply to
or interfere with the regulation and control by any State with-
in its boundaries of the appropriation, us~ and distribution
of water.

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ARTICLE Y. The chief official of each signatory State
charged with the administration of water rights, together with
the Director of the United States I~eclamation Service and the
Director of' the United States Geological Survey, shall cooperate,
ex officio-- .

(a) To promote the systematic determination and coordina-
tion of the facts as to flow, appropriation, consumption, and
use of water in the Colorado River Basin, and the interchange
of available information in such matters.

(b) To secure the ascertainment and publication of the
annual flow of the Colorado River at Lee Ferry.

(c) To perform such other duties as may be assigned by
mutual consent of the signatories from time to time.

ARTICLE VI. Should any claim or controversy arise between
any two or more of the signatory States: (a) with respect to
the waters of the Colorado River system not covered by the terms
of this compact; (0) over the meaning or performance of any of
the terms of this compact; (c) as to the allocation of the
burdens incident to the performance of any article of this
compact orJ:he delivery of waters as herein provided; (d) as to
the construction or operation of works within the Colorado
River Basin, to be situated in two or more states, or to be

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