WSP11181

• File Number: 8200.300.40
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 9/1/1991
• Author: CSU
• Title: Delph Carpenter - Father of Colorado River Treaties - Text of Gov. Ralph L. Carr's 1943 Salute to Delph Carpenter
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

for purpose 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 paragraph, 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 not interfere with or prevent use for
such dominant purposes.

(c) The provisions of this article shall not apply to or inter-
fere with the regulation and control by any state within its boundaries
of the appropriation, use and distribution of water.

ARTICLE V

The Chief Official of each signatory State charged with the
administration of water rights, together with the Director of the
United States Reclamation Service and the Director of the United
States Geological Survey shall co-operate, ex officio:

(a) To promote the systematic determination and coordination of
the facts as to flow, appropriation. consumption and use of water
in the Colorado River Basin, and the interchange of available infor-
mation 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; (b) 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 or the 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
constructed in one State for the benefit of another State; or (e)
as to the diVersion of water in one State for the benefit of another
State; the Governors of the States affected, upon the request of
one of them, shall forthwith appoint Commissioners with poer to
consider and adjust such claim or controversy, subject to ratification
by the Legislatures of the States so affected.

Nothing herein contained shall prevent the adjustment of any such
claim or controversy by any present method or by direct future
legislative action of the interested States.

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