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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1!R. NORVIE1: May I ask a question? ~~. Carpenter do you anticipate

approaching a beneficial uso of 1,500,000 acre foot?

MR. C,\RPENTER: Yos, somo day.

!:JR. NORVIEL: Whon that'day arrives and you havo a consUJ!lptive uso of

7,500,000 acro fcet in tho Upper BasiJl .and thore should bo a floyt in tho

river say of 10,000,000 acro fcet for tvro or throo years, and yon talw out

your ~,500,OOO acro foot.

lfl1. Cl\RPENTER: Thooretically that might bo true. Thc stabilizod stroam

from that much irrigation, - tho stabilization by that flow of yiator on. tho

land during fat yoa:rs prolongs itsolf on the stable flow in tho. loan yoars,'

not only for ono, but for a sories.

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MR. NORVIEL: You will tako it up and uso it and aft or it goes to tho

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rivor bolow thero will be no roturn flow from your irrigation.

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lIR. CARPLNTEIl: We aro not irrigating along tho loner rivor. Wo aro
irrigating back of tho arms that reach out from tho lowor rivor nhoro tho
return is gono and cannot bo recoverod.

MR. NORVIEL: It is rocovbrod at Grand Junction. .
1ffi., C~RPENTER: TIle dovolopmont on. tho Grand has already taken place.
Tho other dovelopmont will bo 'towards San Juan uhore you might say it is
usod qnd thon tho rot urn is gono 2.S. far as wo aro concorned, bocause it

drops into the lowor river.

Lfl1. NORVIBL: S.omo parts, I will admit. If thoro was that much Vlater

availablo you would uso it practically always.

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llR. C~R?ENTER: In thoory, yes, but wo would not bocause thoro would be

the como back from provious years.

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MR. NORVIEL: You havo picked that up.
MR. CARPENTER: I wouldn't want to delay this prO[;TOSS by raising an