WSP12141

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 3/27/1922
• Author: Colorado River Com.
• Title: Report of the Colorado River Commission Session Held at the State Capitol of Utah
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Slowly returns to the natural ch~nnel and constitutes the pres-

ent August flew which, originally wes nil.
This chcnge in chr rl'.cter of st.ream flow, hf's not been '?,ccom-,

~)lished entirely, through the ['r.ency of irrig!?tion; but is due

p8rtly to storage on the upper bESis <l1'e[':s. Uomplete equaliza;'

tion of flow is not claimed; but it has been accomplished in

such degree that gre~t benefit has been derived, und complete

equaliza~ion mude much easier.

Another interesting and important fact is thLt, ~fter diver-

sion from the streum of sufficient water to irrigate the l~rger

area of land now under cuI tivation in the Greet Sult Lake Basin,

the lake still reoeives approximately 5,000,000 acre feet of
~ water annuElly. ~he lake surface is now higher th~n when the
first water was diverted and the strea~s were free from obstruc-

tions and discharged di_rectly into the lrJee. An,l this in spite

of :0.11 the efforts tendin[': to destroy the lEl~e.

I would like to call specie.l attention to the foot thr:t.

after this long period of USe, 0"1' surplus Wl'.ter is down in the

lake, and not up on the water shed. lie have lots of surplus ct

the wrong end of the system notwithstanding Lll the efforts thet

have been Tl'E,de to retc.in it on the up,er land.

,
\ve thinl~ these facts are si[mificant in this case as show-

ing:

(1) That irrig~tion on the u~per areas of the stream basin,

is a potent and economical means of eqUE_lizing the stream flow;

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S.L.