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

water to be utilized in the upper divisien, er perhaps put a

disastreus situation en the lewer divisien, se that any period

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of average flows to any considerable nurabor of years would

certainly be disastrous to the lowor states.

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HR. CARPENTER: I fear that the Commissioner from Arizena

fails to recognize the condition that has proven te be almest

universally true; that tho equalization of stroam flow, both

soasonal, and ovor a poriod of yoars, including the wets and

the d~s, tho fat and tho lean, has boon best accomplished and

most accurately approcahod, by tho first uso, and a rosultant

conservation of Haters at the heads of the stroams, and that

tho uppor dovolopmont instead of making a stroam moro orratic

will tond to avoid tho othor contingoncy of loan yoars that we

are now discussing. It "Till imporve the condition of these

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lean years and flatten tho peaks of high years so that a graph,

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if you ploase, of tho flow of the river over ten years as it

now flows as compared Hi th a graph of tho river flow made as

it would flow ten years after the reservoir dovelopment has oc-

curred through the entire area, would hardly be comparable, as

the depressions would be much modified ~nd the poaks much re_

duced. In truth, tho bost possiblo safoguard for the lowor

states to insure a dolive~ at Loe I s F~r~ wi thin reasonable

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inclusivo figuros from yoar to year would bo the immodiate dovol-

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opment of the rosorvoir storage of tho upper area. To do it all

at once might shock the stream flow at first, and probably tho

Hord "immodiate" is too drastic, but the early dovelopmont of

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