Colorado Water Conservation Handbook

• Year: 2004
• Title: CWCB Board Member Handbook
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Handbook containing phone numbers, addresses, statutes, rules, policies, straegic plans and Board member work plans.
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

shall be in full reimbursement for the loss of taxes in
such political subdivisions of the state, and in lieu of
any and all taxes on said property, improvements and
rights. The signatory states recommend to the President
and the congress that, in the event the United States of
America shall acquire property in one of the signatory
states for the benefit of another signatory state, or its
water users, provision be made for like payment in
reimbursement ofloss 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
appoliionment 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 ofthis 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 Sa very 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 waters of the Little Snake river
and its tributaries, without regard to the state line; and,
so far as is practicable, shall result in an equal division
between the states of the use of water not used under
rights existing prior to the signing of this compact.
(g) All consumptive use of the waters of the
Little Snake 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 s tate.

Article XII
Subject to the provisions of this compact, the
consumptive use of the waters of Henry's fork, a
tributary of Green river originating in the state of Utah
and flowing into the state of Wyoming and thence into
the Green river in the state of Utah; Beaver creek,
originating in the state of Utah and flowing into Henry's
fork in the state of Wyoming; Burnt fork, a tributary of
Henry's fork, originating in the state of Utah and
flowing into Henry's fork in the state of Wyoming;
Birch creek, a tributary of Henry's fork originating in
the state of Utah and flowing into Henry's fork in the
state of Wyoming; and Sheep creek, a tributary of Green
river in the state of Utah and their tributaries, are hereby
apportioned between the states of Utah and Wyoming in
such quantities as will result from the application ofthe
following principles and procedures:
(a) Waters used under rights existing prior to
the signing of this compact.
Waters diverted from Henry's fork, Beaver
creek, Burnt fork, Birch creek and their tributaries, shall
be administered without regard to the state line on the
basis of an interstate priority schedule to be prepared by
the states affected and approved by the commission in
conformity with the actual priority of right of use, the
water requirements of the land irrigated and the acreage
irrigated in connection therewith.

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