WSP11699

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/22/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #23
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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waters naturally flow."

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MR. HOOVER: We now come to (h) (Re read)

I,UL HOOVER: (reading) (i) "The term "appropriation of water" meanS

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its actual application to benehcial use without relation to the. date of

any prior notice or of the construction of works."

MR. DAVIS: I have .redrafted that and redrafted it to conform to

part of Article III, but I am not entirely satisfied viith it. I ,'rould

like to have it passed for the moment.

kffi. HOOVER: I think we should strike out (i) beC'lUse we have provided

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for appropriation. Vie have not used. the word" appropriation.." Now We

come to Article III.' liThe beneficial consumptive uses of the waters of

the Colorado River System are hereby Clivided and apportioned betweeh the

Upper Basin and the Lower Basin as follows:

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(a) There is hereby apportioned in perpetuity to each Basin, for its

oxclusive beneficial consumptive use, 7,500,000 acre feet of water per

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an'1um, which shall include all water necessary for the supply of any right.s

T[hich may now exist.lI

Any objection?

kUL DAVIS:. I have rewritten that in accordance with the instructions

of this morning, but I don't want to submit it.

MR, HOOVER: All right, we Tlill pass it.

"(b) In addition to the apportionment of paragraph (a), the Lower

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Basin is hereby given the right to increase. its boneficial consump-r,ive use
by one million acre feet of water per annum."

Any comment? (Accepted)
,,( c) If, as a matter of international comity, the United states of

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America shall h8reafter recognize in the United States of Mexico' any

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right to the use of the -vmtors of the Colorado River Systetil, such .Vaters;