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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shall first be supplied from the surplus water aftar th() above amounts have

beon satisfied; and if such surplus shall provo insufficient for this purpose,

then the deficiency shall be equally apportioned be~veen and equ211y borne

by tho Upper Basin and the Lower Basin, and Trhenever nccessary the States of

the Upper Division shall deliver at .L()e Ferry one-half of tho deficiency so

recognized in addition to that provided in paragraph (d)."

lvffi. HA.i\lELE: Is that supposed to,have tho same st"tus as the lower Basin

share under (a)?

lvffi. HOOVER: I presume it has - do you think anything needs to be donee

MR. HAMELE:: 'If it is intended to have tho same status ne should use the

same language regarding the right.

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MR. HOOVER:
MR. EMERSON:
plural.
lvffi. HOOVER: I don I t thin), there is any such thing. AnY further
comment on (c)? (Acceptod)
"(d) The States "of the Upper Division agree that they will not cause
the now of tho. river at Leo Ferry to be. deploted below an aggregate of

We better wait until we see (a) and we ~ill suspend (b).

I suggest in paragraph (c), fifth line, we make "water"

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75,000,000 acre feet for any period of ton consecuU.vc ycars reckoned in
contLDuing progressive series, beginning with tho first day of tho July next
succeedll1g bhe ratification of this.compact, nor below a flow of 4,000,000
acre feet for any ono of such years.n

!.IR. NORVIEL: i!ho is the author of this paragraph.

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MR. HOOVER:
MR. NORVIEL:

. I don I t lmGYr, this is the old one.

I vrould like to know "for any poriod of ten consecutive

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years" reckoned in ten progressive series," I take it there is no place set

dovm but the points keep moving.

MR. HO()VER~ Yos.