WSP11289

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/24/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #26
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Mll. EMERSON: That would remove my objections.

CHAIllM,\N HOOVER: Thoil" apportionment comes under :lrticle III.

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MR. C"~LDWELL: Well, if that is confined to "within" that is whero

I want to eorrall it.

CIt\IllMAN HOOVER: Then aro you satisfi8d with the statement "from

tho water that may be stored."

MR. CALDWELL: I don't know that I am.

CH1\.IRJl:L\N HOOVEll: Mr. Emorsen, Judge Sloan suggosts. that it. mif,ht

also help you if wo out out tho YlOrds, "and bo satisfiod."

Mll. EMERSON: I don't Y/ant to soe that takon out.. I .thJ.nk ,I am

satisfied so far as I am concornod, with tho words "storage capacity"

written out and "from the water that may be stored."

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CHAIIlMAN HOOVER: Doos that satisfy you, Ii". Caldwell., "attach to

and be satisfiod from tho wator that may. be storod."

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lIIR. CALDWELL: "From tho apportionment to tho Lowor Basin," nould

satisfy me.

CWIImlAN HOOVER: Woll, you are just ropeating tho pact ane!, you

are making it moro difficult.

MR. C.~LDWELL: Why not concode that to me, Mr. .Chairman.

CIt\IllMAN HOOVER: Thore is an intrinsic objection to .that and that is;

that the storage may be made from tho surplusag~ that none ef us POSt;;Gss.

Why add that difficulty to tho people in tho south in swallowing 1711at is.

going to be a difficult thing to syralloy! anyhow:.
MR. NORVIF.L: And I don It understand that that 7~- million. acre foot
is going to be branded and labelled so that we are going to know whether
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it is that particular water or not.

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1m. CALDr/ELL: I think iI will make anether, concossion, Mr. Chairman,.
and cut out those last word~.