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• 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

as I havo suggostod, and roally that is tho distinction that I

would wish to mako in my suggostion for tho pact. It isn't moroly

dependent upon storage but depondont upon a roservo storago capa-

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ci ty for tho purpose of oqualizing tho ilow in ardor tl12, t wo may

maintain past Lools Ferry, or to tho lowor basin, somo minimum

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annually.

1.JR. HOOVER, rlell, do you rofor to annual rosorvo or soason-

al TCSO:!'VO ?

ER~ HORVIE1~ .A coaSOD to season roseI've storage oapClcity"

MR, CARPENTER, Year to yoar,

l.ill, NORVIEL, Yoar to year, mot to dry capacity. Now, to bo

a little moro o,xplicit, it is

conceivable to mo that storago

in tho upper basin may bo concoived and built morely for powor

and thoro would bo no roserve storago in it. Tho same thing could

happon on tho lowor, or it may bo built for irrigation with no

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reservo stor.ago in it,

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What I am trying to point out is, probably the simplest

thing would be to provido for somo resorve storago for tho ex-

pross purposo of oqu~lizing this flow so that tho minimum roquire-

ments of the lower basin may bo met certainly, I may point out

that in my judgment it may bo many yoars bofore that roo rvo stor-

age would noed actually to be provided, but wo should provido for

it now by aGroomont.. I say \VQ should,--thO,t is jUGt 2, thought..

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1ill, HOOVER; You mean by providing by agrooment. It is uttor-

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ly impossible for tho Govon statos to make an agroemont to can-

struct storago, that is infoasible, but ynlat the sevon states

could do would be to agreo that this compact wouldn't bo enfor-

cible until storage had been provided.
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