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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Upper Colorado River Basin Compact of 1948

Additio~al subparagraphs and paragraphs (c) and (d) address the use
of water in excess of the apportionment and prohibit deprivation of the
use of another State's apportioned water by such use, and prohibit
establishment of any right to continued use of excess water.

Article ~ i!l and~. These paragraphs address the allocation of
reservoir evaporation quantities among the States.

Article ~ill. "In the event ... a reservoir site is available both to
assure deliveries at Lee Ferry and to store water for consumptive ~ in
a State of the Upper Division, the storaRe of water for consumptive ~
shall be Riven preference. Any reservoir or reservoir capacity used to
assure deliveries at Lee Ferry shall by order of the Commission be used
to store water for consumptive ~ in a State, provided the Commission
finds that such storaRe is reasonably necessary to permit such State to
make the use of the water apportioned to it by this Compact."

Article VII. "The consumptive ~ of water by the United States of
America shall be charged as a use by the State in which the use is
made; provided, that such consumptive use incident to the diversion,
impoundinR, or conveyance of water in one:state for use in another shall
be charged to such latter State."

Articles ~ XI, XII, XIII, and XIV. These articles apportion the waters
of certain tributaries of the Colorado River between~the pairs of States
which share them. All refer to consumptive ~ at least once, and
depleted flow is mentioned in Article XIII. The article, stream, and
State pairs are:

X, LaPlata River, Colorado and New Mexico (an existing compact
is recognized).

XI, Little Snake River, Colorado and Wyoming.

XII, Henry's Fork, Utah and Wyoming.

XIII, Yampa River, Colorado and Utah.

XIV, San Juan River, Colorado and New Mexico.

Article XV, i!l. "Subject to the provisions of the Colorado River
Compact and of this Compact, water of the Upper Colorado River System
may be impounded and used for the generation of electrical power, but
such impoundin~ and ~ shall be subservient !2. ~ ~ and consumption
of ~ water for aRricultural and domestic purposes and shall not
interfere with ~ prevent ~.for such dominant purposes."

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