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

!.iR. HOOV.,R; Wouldn't it oomo, moro or loss to a CJ.uostion

as to tho minimum flow? lir. Norviel has sUGcostod a minimum

flow of fivo million.

lUl. UOnVIDL: Vn,atovor soven thousand oocond foot work

out, it woula.. bo I .tllink botwoon five aml six inillion. .

lilt. CALDYlBLL: If tho minimum allnual floVJ in o;cro feot

wero plaoGd lowonough, surely, suroly sehlOtilinG oould bo..

o;grecd upon, but it OqCUrS .to me, by aGreoment in the compapt,

if it ioneceosary, that steraGe may be previded either above
er belevlLco's Ferry, SEJ.Y reoerve storage. I W11ntte SEJ.y if

reserve stora'go, which moans atorago for this purpOsQ', be

provided, then the minimum flow CEJ.n be increooed if storage

is providod.

HlL :"I.DRSOlT, Who would bo res]lollsible for that Dtorage ?

11R. CALDVillLL, I think thEJ.t is EJ.nothor CJ.ueDtion, but r

have road tho Colorado-Ylyoming decisiOn in tho Damo way that

you hEJ.ve reod it, and have remarked, os you have remarked,

that it is probably just in that m~.tter, but Itliink tho thing

could bo handlod OEJ.sily bocEJ.use of tho nocossi 'tyof' .largo

storEJ.go in tho rivor anyway, oithor abovo or bolow,2.nd it doos

soom to mo that tho mj.nimum flow bocomes 8. mattor of 'not a groa.t

deal of oOnseQuonce, EJ.ftor all is said and done, if it is low

onough.

1m. :JI.GRSOlT: It is just a so;fogtlEJ.rd, o;nd thoy viish to

have it. But it seems to mo -bhat if the uppor statOD agroo to

deliver a cortain amount of wator over EJ. torm of yoars, and

possibly fUrther agroo to delivor not 10SD than tho minimum

yoarly ameuntevery year, it is up te tho lovier statoD to pre-
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