Colorado River Workshop Handbook for the CWCB July 20 2004

• Description: Colorado River Workshop Handbook for the CWCB July 20 2004
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 7/20/2004
• Title: Colorado River Workshop Handbook for the CWCB July 20 2004
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Meeting

(b) All consumptive use of water of La Plata river and its tributaries shall be charged
under the apportionment of article III hereof to the state in which the use is made;
provided, that consumptive use incident to the diversion, impounding or conveyance of
water in one state for use in the other shall be charged to the latter state.
Article XI
Subject to the provisions of this compact, the consumptive use of the water of the
Little Snake river and its tributaries is hereby apportioned between the states of Colorado
and Wyoming in such quantities as shall result from the application of the following
principles and procedures:
(a) Water used under rights existing prior to the signing of this compact.
(1) Water diverted from any tributary of the Little Snake river or from the main stem
of the Little Snake river above a point one hundred feet above the confluence of Savery
creek and the Little Snake river shall be administered without regard to rights covering
the diversion of water from any down - stream points.
(2) Water diverted from the main stem of the Little Snake river below a point one
hundred feet below the confluence of Savery creek and the Little Snake river shall be
administered on the basis of an interstate priority schedule prepared by the commission in
conformity with priority dates established by the laws of the respective states.
(b) Water used under rights initiated subsequent to the signing of this compact.
(1) Direct flow diversions shall be so administered that, in time of shortage, the
curtailment of use on each acre of land irrigated thereunder shall be as nearly equal as
may be possible in both of the states.
(2) The storage of water by projects located in either state, whether of supplemental
supply or of water used to irrigate land not irrigated at the date of the signing of this
compact, shall be so administered that in times of water shortage the curtailment of
storage of water available for each acre of land irrigated thereunder shall be as nearly
equal as may be possible in both states.
(c) Water users under the apportionment made by this article shall be in accordance
with the principle that beneficial use shall be the basis, measure and limit of the right to
use.
(d) The states of Colorado and Wyoming each assent to diversions and storage of
water in one state for use in the other state, subject to compliance with article IX of this
compact.
(e) In the event of the importation of water to the Little Snake river basin from any
other river basin, the state making the importation shall have the exclusive use of such
imported water unless by written agreement, made by the representatives of the states of
Colorado and Wyoming on the commission, it is otherwise provided.
(f) Water use projects initiated after the signing of this compact, to the greatest extent
possible, shall permit the full use within the basin in the most feasible manner of the