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<br /> <br />a very positive basis of sterage. That positive sterage may- <br /> <br />never be required if in the upper basin the land storage is <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />provided as praetical necessities compol. <br /> <br />MR. NORVIEr": By land storage y.ou moan the use of the water <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />for resorveir irrigation. <br /> <br />MR. CALDj'illLL: Someone used that; I don't know its technical <br /> <br />moaning. I mean the return flow that cemes after irrigation. <br /> <br />MR. HOOVER: Hhen we censider the question of storage, not <br /> <br />only from the seasenal flou of year to year, but the floVl ever <br />Vie are leokingto <br />a term of years,jthe equalization. Therefore, yeu want a ,term <br /> <br />of years for average so as to include the second form of reten- <br /> <br />tion. <br /> <br />MR. CALD':illLL: My thought is that ,",e provide in the compact <br /> <br />for a certain definite amount ef reserve storage. By that I <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />mean storage capacity to catch the water from wet to dry years. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />He can obviate the necessity of going further into averages <br /> <br />because we don't kneu in the first place what the average is nou. <br /> <br />The reason I make that statement is this. Mr. Carpenter made <br /> <br />the statement a Vlhile age that,the fairest uay to gauge a river <br /> <br />is a 20 year average, or some other term of years. Cortainly <br /> <br />that would be true if the river ran frem year to year and time to <br /> <br />time witheut interference, but in the case of the Celorado River <br /> <br />we have a 20 year period covering the last preeeding 20 years, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />and during'that 20 years very mueh of the uater has been diverted <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />and we have our average disturbed, by the diversiens which have <br /> <br />taken place during those 20 years. I say the 20 year average is <br /> <br />13th - S.F. <br />29 <br /> <br />123 <br />