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

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,MR. ,CARPENTER:' lo/ underi3tanding ii3 that the, inflow be-

-!:;10T0en Loe's Ferry and Laguna offsets the less in the river be-

tween Loo's Forry and laguna.

MR. NORVrEL: That's right; that 10avoi3 us then with tho

flow at tho top of tho rivor about tho samo, whothor at Topock

or at Loo's Forry.

/fill. EHERSON:

113 thoro anyobjoction. to tho ostablishment

of a minimum flow as a principle!

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HR. CARPENTBR: I have no objoction.

, :MR. HOOVER: ~:\y porsonal thought is thore Hould bo no
providing that a roasonablo number of yoars bo takon,'tho minimum flow
objoction to tho ostablishmont of somo mimimum flow/boing as-

surance morely that in that period of yoars tl;1ore would not bo

that ha~d application that might othorwise bo foared.

:MR. El<iERSON: The word "yearly" should ahmys be under-

stood in the exprossion of minimumfloH.

,/fill. CARPENTER: In preparing my draft, I at ono timo had

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__.a"minimum flO!>I, but I fearod it would provoko opposition that

.should bo discussed hero" and honco I left it out bocause I

thought that ,~s a propor factor for discussion. The opinions

might

woll vary as to what that minimum flo,1 would boo Somo

might say it was fixod too low and others that I had fixod it

too high, and so I loft it out completoly, presuming it would

como up at this time, and I folt tho mere I thought of it that

,it was a dangerous ,factor to considor in one Hay. If you get

, that minimum too high and in somo one particular year it droppod

,bolow, it might be tho sourco of ullilocessary friction. Most

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