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

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1m" HOOVER ~ Hha t \:fould bo addod horo ~ 2S a rough guess

would bo, tho floV! Qnd eencLUnptivo uso of tho Gila and Little

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Colorado and tho consumptivo uso of tho Colorado below Loe's

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Forry and ~bove Laguna" This all comos to Qbout a million and
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2. 1l2.1f, 2.nd tile consumpti~e uso in tho uppor b"sinj 2,400,000

so it would bo a credit of' wa tor to tho Laguna rOc;.ClinGs of o'p-

proximn tely e. million 'foot ~ 'somothinG liko tha t.o

1,111" C~~HPblJTEH 3 'Yes" If thoro arc others ~ like the Virgin

and other rivers, that TIould bo still morc of a roauctioDc

],iIl. SCRUGIL1.i, I thought the ImI,eri"l VQl10y hQd " hee.dinG

somovn10ro at Laeuna" What was all tho disturbanco by tho Yuma

people?

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~'hoy havo contre:ctod for building thaiI'

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canal and hoc-ding it [,t 12.guna and hnve ELGTood to do thO,t, but

nover hc:~ve done it., ~'hoy have nover t2Jcon any VIa tor out above

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tho YUr.1D.. project" The bost use of the Gila~ as I said yesterday,

is in its own ve:lloy end tlJ.e:t probQbly Hill bo 'accomplishod semo

day..

~'.l1to IIOOV=iR~ Would it bo pOSGi~lo for you to rocc~Gt sarno

figures in tho light of the countol"'2cti:)n of doducting tho Gila

flow ancl consumption from ,tho upper b2.sin flor! and consumption?

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you moan,

The J.oHor bc:.sin conSUlU11tivo

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don't you? lIako somo 'aJ!proximation of G difference in consump-

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tive usa batvlOOl1 tho larIar be.sin and tho upper b3sin~ exclusivo

of tho Impori"l Valloy, ~nd sdd th~t to thoso figures.

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