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

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Colorado River Compact of 1922

Article III, (b). "In addition to the apportionment in paragraph (a),
the Lower Basin is hereby given the right to increase its beneficial
comsumptive use of such waters by one million acre-feet per annum."

Article III, (c). This Article provides for a treaty with Mexico,
the water to be supplied first from "...waters which are surplus over
and above the aggregate of the quantities specified in paragraphs (a)
and (b)...".

Article III, (d). "The States of the Upper Division will not cause
the flow of the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate
of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of ten consecutive years...".

Article III, (e). "The States of the Upper Division shall not with-
hold water, and the States of the Lower Division shall not require
the delivery of water, which cannot reasonably be applied to domestic
and a~ricultura1 uses."

Article IV, (a). Navigation on the Colorado River is "...subservient
to the uses of such waters for domestic, a~ricultural. and power
purposes."

Article IV. (b). This paragraph allows impoundment ~f water for
electrical power generation, but such use is "...subservient to the
use and consumption of such water for a~riculture and domestic
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purposes... .

Article IV, (c). "The prov1.s1.ons of this Article shall not apply
to or interfere with the regulation and control by any State
within its boundaries of the appropriation, use, and distribution
of water."