Case No. 81CW245 Little Snake River Water Management Project

• Description: Case No. 81CW245 Little Snake River Water Management Project
• State: CO
• Date: 10/23/1981
• Author: Goodson, Myron
• Title: Case No. 81CW245 Little Snake River Water Management Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Court Documents

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states for the benefit of another signatory state, or its water
users, provision be made for like payment of loss
of taxes.
ARTICLE X
(a) The signatory states recognize La Plata river compact entered
into between the states of Colorado and New Mexico, dated November
27, 1922, approved by the congress on January 29, 1925 (43 Stat.
796), and this compact shall not affect the apportionment therein
made.
(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
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Subject to the provisions of this compact, the consumptive use
its tributaries is hereby
of the water of the Little Snake river and
the states of Colorado and Wyoming in such
apportioned between
quantities as shall result from the application of the following 4 g
principles and procedures: 411,)q
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sting prior to. the signiq� ?f © C
(a) Water used under rights exi _ _. .
this compact.
(1) Water diverted from any tributary of the Little Snake
Little Snake river above a point
river or from the main stem of the
the confluence of Savery creek and the Little
one hundred feet above
be administered without regard to rights covering
Snake river shall
the diversion of water from any down _ stream points.
(2) Water diverted from the main stem of the Little Snake
below the confluence of Savery
river below a point one hundred feet
basis
Little Snake river shall be administered
creek and the fission
interstate priority schedule prepared byt the laws of the
of an
conformity with priority dates established by
respective states.
under rights initiated subsequent to the signing
(b) Water used
of this compact.
(1) Direct flow diversions shall be so administered that,
use onaeach acre land
in time of shortage, the curtailment of d
thereunder shall be as nearly equal pof
irrigated
in both of the states.
(2) The storage of water by projects located in either
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state, whether of supplemental supply or of water used to irrigate
the signing of this compact, shall
land not irrigated at the date of t ,
be so
storage water of storage of Ovate
equal as may be possible in both states.
thereunder shall be as nearly
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