WSP11976

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/14/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #15
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

A very entertaining and possibly per~uasive address oould be

deliverod before this Commission by an informed person to tho

effeot that all storage, all development should take plaoe

on the head waters of the stream, and advooates of the upper

states are just .as strong as any, and it was my thought te

get as far as possible from the ~to~age in the oompact, to

avoid that very confliot, it being inoumbent upon the distriot,

the two divisions provide their ovm storago in their own way

and by the instrumentalities at their hands. Now, the only

objeotion I have to the principle, tor oxample, to providing

for storage reservoir, - is the dispute that will arise as to

location. . Some will say that Lee's Ferry is the psyohological

plaoe in one way for a reservoir as it's at the point of control

of the river as it shifts between the upper and lower division.

Now, suppose we provide some instr~entality by which that

reservoir could be constructed which in turn would be mot by

the counter defenses of the lower rpsorvoir, vnlich are very

persuasive. Others claim that the :Flaming Gorge and sites

further up would aooomplish the re~ult better and bring greater

benefit to mankind because of the suooessive step of development,

so you may proceed step by.step and expand on this matter of

storage. My thought was to prOVide a oertain definite figure

now that should be the annual avor~ge delivory, or tho average

annual delivery at Lee's Ferry, ta*ing that over a period of

ten years, and you would have some aggregate of ten times that

figure, and that was not to be all we were to deliver, that

was to be our minimum.

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