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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I,m. HOCNEl't:: fou might h,t them have Ell 1, the watcr thoy want.

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MR. C1Ll1PENTER: I wouldn't want it implied that oach could get a

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title.

Jm. NORVIEL, They can get it and use it untH the next Commission

comes in and settles it,

MIL Cl.RPENTER: . We may Vlant to switch oVf3r the same a~ the ether

felloTI.

MR. DAVIS: That should read "no use Vlhi."h may be perfectod subse-

quent to the date of this compact shall have fillY part of tho wator apportioned"

etc,

MR. HOOVER (reading) "1'Jhenover Ylor!cs of, capacity sufficiont to store

5.000,000 acre feot of Viator havo boon constructed on th~ Colorado Rivor

':rithil1 or for the bonofitof tho Lower Basin,: any rights. which the users

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of water in the Lower,Basin may have against the users of water in the

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"Fper Basin shall be satisfied thereafter 1'1'00 the Vlaters so stored." I

TIOUld suggest that you put in the word "present." Mr. Carpenter, do you

T!ant that word "present" in or leave it wide open?

JAR. CARPENTEl't: Leave it as it is.

MR. HOOVER: All right, I have no objection, (reading) "Nothing in

this compact shall be construed to prevent or. limit any state from in-

~tituting or maintaining any action or proceeding, legal or equitable,

for tho protection ef any riGht under this compact or .the enforcement of

arry of its provisions," The q\J.estien is, whether that last paragraph
should be movod to the next article,

JUDGE SLOAN:

Then you better use the word "present" in the Upper

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Basin.

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MR, HOOVER~

You can't flay they have any: right against any ether

they havc a right againsc a junior applicant.: Any further comment on that?