WSP12332

• 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 #16
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

JIR. NORVIEo I had hopod to got that kind of oxprossion,
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but I was wonderinG whothor this is/o,bportuno timo to ask for it,

lm.1l00VDR: I soo no reason why wo shouldn't go on vlith the

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discussion a little,

1.ffi. NORVIEL, I think so, I think it should bo Givon considor-

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ation,

J,i1l. CALD\7ELL 0 Er. Chairman, this quootion CQlno up, it sooms

to mo, somewhat illogically, growing, out of tho quootion or a sug-

gostion by lIr, Norviel who couldn't 000 how a compact could be-

como at onco oporative unless storage wero provided. I havo mado

the statemont that I bclieve a proviflion for storago (tnd tho build.-

ing of storage is not a prorecluisi to' to t~lO operation of this

oompabt, I think that is truo because tho rivor is going down

today and it went down yosterday and it will go down tomorrow,

Tho thing that tho lowor basin wants to know is that a oerta:Ln

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portion of that river w1,l1 continuo :to go dOVln. The thing that

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the upper basin wants to do, and th0 lower basin wantz to do I

would say, is to holp soe to it that a oertain nl~lOUl1t, of wator
for tho purposo
goos down to tho lower b8.sin. A large storc'\ge for that purposo,-/

of irrigation~ is not nocoscary,- nbsolutolY nocessary, at this

time ancl may not bo for Gome time t:o como, at loast 0.,8 long as tho

minimum which tho 10vIOr basin will :noed centinuos to come d,ovm

the river,- tho mini~urn 'in ~crc foot~ in such a way that the~ can.

use it. Now that may continuo for ;zomo time'-

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Tho groat neoossity on tho ri~er of courso is the control of

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the rivor for protection purposos. 110\7 if we sign a compact which

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