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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objeetien, but I weuld be glad to talk this ever on tho eutside.

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I~. DAVIS: I dislike that minimum clause too, not becauso of the
effect on any rights we have, but because of the implication that the

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rivers can get dOVlll to that point.

MR. HOOVER: I think we will agrGe it dis):lUrses all ever the Basin.
J~. NORVIEL: I dislike 4,000,000 acre foet. I think I started in
with six and was bernedmvn to 4,000,000.

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MR. DAVIS: If I thought it vlOuld do you any geod I wouldn't dissent

at all.

I~. NOnVIEL: Then I might bo squashed clear out.

MR. EMERSON: May I repoat that Arizona c'onsidor this again with
those states who favor cutting out the minimum flow from this section?
One state objects and I think that state ought to consider again.

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MR. HOOVER: I think they should consider after supper and let us
lmow. (Reading).

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"'(e) All of the States further agree, hewever, that the States of
the Upper Division shall not withhoid, and the states of the lower division
shall not require, the delivery of water which cannot be reasonably applied
to beneficial agricultural or domestic uses."

MR. SCRUGIlAM: I wanted to put in something else and am wondering

if it really CO~Ults, - it is important, but I won't hold up this paragraph.

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MR. NORVIEL: liThe beneficial agricultural and domestic uses,"

is fully set out in paragraph (b) article N.

MR, HOOVER: Any cross references that are not necessary is that much

added difficulty in construing the document. So far as Colorado is concerned,

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this is not going to affect them as far as I can see.

This will affect

the lmver basin.

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I,m. H1\MELE: The first line of that paragraph isn It in harmony with