WSP12392

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/13/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #13
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

both aroas will bo that predictated upon the construction of

reservoirs. Nevertheless, ,ro have no po,ror to suy by whom these

reservoirs shall be constructed, in whut loealities or when

they shall be constructed. That should be loft froe to both

communities to use such instrumentalities as may bo at hand, and

tho division of the wator should be so lrulde that oither area

may build, or neglect to build, of its ovm motion, and as it

may believe censtruction or lack of construction is at anyone

time justified. The suggestion you mako preS\'lpposes the con-

struction of roservoirs in tho lowor countrios,and along with

it thore should bo concurrontly a liko construction of roservoirs

in tho upper territory to permit the delivories as yeu suggost

to tho lowor territory. The suggestion I have made loavos that

mattor to bo worked out ontirely by tho two divisions.

MR. NORVIBL: Continuing the thought oxprossod, and tho

facts that we havo bofore us that tho rivor is orratic in its

natural state, Mr. Carpenter's suggestion that it would be noc-

essary for them to devolop tho rivor by storage at ovory concoiv-

ablo point whoro the water can bo utilized, I concodo that to

bo the truo devolopmont for the future, and will bo, of course;

so that tho full uso of tho wator in tho upper states undor any

considoration of a poriod of timo of averaging tho flow, will

mako tho rivor more orratic than it no,r is or accentuato tho

erratic condition of the rivor, to tho oxtent that in cycles of

dry yoars on a period of averago of anything more than 2 or 3
years would permit all of tho water or practically all of the

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