WSP10568

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/19/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #19
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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would: be satisfactory to him to take the place of this paragraph
which is marked (a) under Article III, so that we may know exactly
what he would agree to?

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MR. EMERSON: It seems to me, Mr. Chairman, that the trquble
lies in the confusion of what in my m~nQ'are two rather distinct
factions. First, we have guaranteed a certain delivery of water

at Lee, Ferry. That amount of water agreed upon to be delivered

by the upper states takes care of the requir~ments of the lower

states" both past and those that ~re estimated for the future,

plus the Mexican burden. The other factor is the questi~n ?f the

relative development of the two drainagebas'ins. Now understand,

in that first factor of delivery at Lee Ferry there is allowance

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for a Mexican burden. When it comes ,to the question of relative
development in the two basins the Mexican acreage ~oes not enter

into. the cbnsideration.

CHhIRMAN HOOVER: No.

MR. EMERSON: And if Mr. Norviel can consider that proposition,
as a two, factor proposition and not tie up the amount of the
development in the two basins with the guaranty of delivery of
water at Lee' Ferry, it might help in ,finding a solution of the,
matter.

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MR. NORVIEL: Mr. Chairman, this question' of' guaranty has come

up often J.n this discussion. The guaranty ,which the upper states

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so magnanimously offer to us upon the suggestion of an even eHvision
of the water, has always., been less than that amount of water which
they say is our? In other ~ords, they say ~we will give you a
fifty-fifty divisioriof the water at Lee Perry and' thEm~e will
guaranty YOQ out of your half of the fifty-fifty division an

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