7290

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7290
• Author: Anonymous.
• Title: Comments on Colorado River Flows for Endangered Fishes Under the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, and the Treaty with Mexico.
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

July 19, 1985
LEA

Colorado River Compact of 1922

The following excerpts from the Colorado River Compact of 1922
are selected as bearing on the questions of flows for the endangered
fishes in the Colorado River and its tributaries. Emphasis has been
added by underlining within the text. This has been prepared for
consideration during the Colorado River endangered fishes delibera-
tions, and is not to be construed as a summary for other purposes.

Article T. "The major purposes of this compact are to provide for
the eqUitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters
of the Colorado River System; to establish the relative importance
of different beneficial uses of water... and to secure the expeditious
aRricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River Basin,
the storaRe of its waters, and the protection of life and property
fromn floods."

Article II. Terms are defined in Article II. Those pertinent here
are:

(c). "States of the Upper Division" - Colorado, New Mexico,
Utah and Wyoming.

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(d). "States of the Lower Division" - Arizona, California,
and Nevada.

(f). "Upper Basin" - those parts of Arizona. Colorado, New
Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming which naturally drain into
the Colorado River System above Lee Ferry.

(g). "Lower Basin" - those parts of Arizona. California,
Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah which naturally drain into
the Colorado River System below Lee Ferry.

(h). "Domestic use" includes the use of water for household,
stock, municipal, mining, milling, industrial, and other
like purposes, excluding electrical power generation.

Article III, (a). "There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado
River System in perpetuity to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin,
respectively, the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of 7,500,000
acre-feet of water per annum...".