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

blo by us, that an assuranco of tho propor minimum bo sot,

woll ,and good. It is not within tho rango of my thought to ovon

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concoivo of a condition whoro tho uppor statos would strip tho

stroam and doliberately paralyze the country bolow, but if that

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minimum is established then tho objoction to tho ton yoar

avorago is immodiatoly dissipatod.

MR. NORVIEL: No, you couldn't say that.

MR. CAW\-JELL: It sooms to mo that it is not possiblo to

think of this problom Hith rospoct to tho partition of tho

wators, and divorco from our thoughts tho idoa of tho control

of tho rivor. If this rivor woro undor control, or if it flowod

uniformly, HO could divido it. It doosn't flow uniformly and

that is our grcat difficulty. Tho only way to bring about any_

thing liko a uniform floll is to provide storago in tho river.

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\'/e do know somothing of the amount in aore foet that that river

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will dolivor. ,n1at we want to do is to divido up that rivor

on the basis of acre foot betwoen the Upper and lowor divisions.

If you consider it in connection with storage and control, we

can do it; if you don't considor it in connoction Hith storago

and control, HO aro goinG to havo difficulty. Avoragos ovor yoars

aro difficult. IIo don't knoH what it is going to bo in advance

and wo should ImoH somothing about \'That tho aggrogato is going

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to be, and what the annual is going to bo to tho lowor states.

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,I beliove 1m can do it by control of the river, I don't concoive

that it is nocossary immediatoly to control tho rivor entiroly

in ordor to roach tho conclusion of this proposition. For

instanco, if six, sevon, oight, nino million acre foot is dotor_

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