BOARD01303

• Board Meeting Date: 1/14/1960
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:
MR. ll1ILENSKI:

MR. STAPLETON:
MR. MOSES:

MR. MILENSKI:

.MR. MOSES:

MR. STAPLETON:

necessity of such action somewhere, but I can
see the possibility of opposition to this bill
being made by the United States Attorney Gener-
al which might defeat the entire bill, and there-
fore New Mexico may be objecting to having such
language put in the bill.

I think along the line someplace, perhaps
in a compact agreement, such language would
have its place but I am wondering if this bill
is the proper place."

"Mr. Milenski."

"I was wondering if there was any way to
transform acre-feet to a yearly percentage of
the stream flows. When you start naming acre-
feet sometimes in dry times you get in trouble.
If it was a yearly percentage it might eliminate
a lot of it."

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"Mr. Moses."

"We've attempted to do that as much as we
can. As Mr. Sparks pointed out the problem
is that, under the Compact New Mexico is entitled
to 11*% of the waters,of the Colorado River and
that may not necessarily be in line with the
water in the San Juan, and the only place that
New Mexico can get its Compact water is out of
the San Juan. If you have a dry year on the San
Juan and a wet year or normal year on the rest
of tte rivers of the system, you have a problem.

The best we can do, at least it's the best
we've been able to figure out, is something that
was already proposed in this and that is, that
in the event of a shortage~ those shortages will
be shared on the San Juan !dver. Now that's not
very satisfactory, I'lladmit, but that's about
as good as we can do."

"You won't wind up with a deficit then, will
your

"It's a year to year proposition. That's
one difference here in comparison to, say the
Rio Grande or some of the other compacts."

"Larry, what is your feeling about com-
pacts at tnis time?"

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