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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no claim upon any part of tho wator apportionod to tho othor basin.

Whenever works of capacity sufficient to store 5,000,000 acre feet of water

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have been construoted on the Colorado River within or for the bonofit of

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the lower basin, any rights vrhich the ovmors of works located in the lower

basin may now have in or to the use of tho waters hereby apportionod to

the upper basin shall be satisfied thereafter from the waters so stored,

Nothing in this compact shall be construed to prevent or limit any

state from instituting or maintaining any action or proceeding, legal or

equitable, for the protection of any right under this compact or the

enforcement of any of its provisions.":

For the word "basin", we should say.that "division of the bas in II ,

because the basL, is taken here to apply to the whole basin under our

definitions.

MR, EMERSON: The 4th line from the end of that paragraph, why

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shouldn't you repeat the "valid and porfectod rights". That's. leaving

the field open again.

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1m. DAVIS: It is better that way.

1lR. HOOVER: The only point about the last 2 or 3 lUles of paragraph 1

is that they are hard for the laymen to understand. "Any rights: which the)

O1'ffierS of works might have in o!' to the use of waters hereby apportioned

to the upper basin". WhY don't you simply say lIagainst the upper basin

. shall be satisfied thereafter from the i'later$ $0 stored. II

1m. DAVIS~ It is the broadest term.

1lR. HOOVER: Somebody will say there is an unexplained reservation

in those words.

JUDGE SLOAN: Then you eliminate tho natural flow.

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MR. HOOVER: How would you express it?

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JUDGE SLOAN: I would say "thereafter bo Ilatisfied from tho wators