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

without necessity of enactment of special statutes for
such purposes by the General Assembly of the State of
Colorado.

Article IX
The physical and other conditions peculiar to
the South Platte River and to the territory drained and
served thereby constitute the basis for this compact and
neither of the signatory States hereby concedes the
establishment of any general principle or precedent with
respect to other interstate streams.

Article X
This compact may be modified or terminated at
any time by mutual consent of the signatory States, but,
if so terminated and Nebraska or its citizens shall seek
to enforce any claims of vested rights in the waters of
the South Platte River, the statutes oflimitation shall not
run in favor of Colorado or its citizens with reference to
claims of the Western Irrigation District to the water of
the South Platte River from the sixteenth day of April,
1916, and as to all other present claims from the date of
the approval of this compact to the date of such
termination, and the State of Colorado and its citizens
who may be made defendants in any action brought for
such purpose shall not be permitted to plead the stahltes
of limitation for such period of time.

Article XI
This compact shall become operative when
approved by the Legislature of each of the signatory
States and by the Congress of the United States. Notice
of approval by the Legislature shall be given by the
Governor of each State to the Governor of the other
State and to the President of the United States, and the
President of the United States is requested to give notice
to the Governors of the signatory States of the approval
by the Congress of the United States.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Commissioners
have signed this compact in duplicate originals, one of
which shall be deposited with the Secretary of State of
each of the Signatory States.
Done at Lincoln, in the State of Nebraska, this
27th day of April, in the year of our Lord One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Twenty-three.
Delph E. Carpenter,
Robert H. Willis.

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