BOARD01455

• Board Meeting Date: 6/9/1942
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

(b) That the adjustment on the Rio Grande be limited to
the section of the river below Fort Q.uitman, Texas, and shall
in no -#ay affect the treaty of 1906 between the ~~o oountries
on the Rio Grande.

-5. Since it is apparent that the allooation of water to
the Republio of Mexico from the Colorado River is of neoessity
concerned with the plaoe, time and manner of delivery, it is the
sense of the State of Colorado that.

(a) Controlled deliveries of water at Al~mo canal heading
should be limited to such quantities of water as will not in-
fringe upon the water apportioned to the upper basin states as
provided by the Colorado River Compaot;

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(b) That in addition to controlled water, all water act-
ually present in the river at the.Alamo canal heading or at any
determined point bel"'r that heading and all other available water
of the Colorado River and its tributaries orossing the inter-
national boundary shall be oonsidered as a delivery of water to
the Republic of Mexico insofar as the same is seasonable for
beneficial use, and that the United States will be justified in
making an agreement to render firm seasonable delivery of 500,000
acre feet per annum of such water;;

(c) That for any additional allocation of water to the
Republic of Mexico, quantities of water passing Boulder Dam
in excess of 8,500,000 acre feet per annum may be used as a
basis for an allocation between the United States and the Republio
of Mexico upon a sliding soale whioh makes available to Mexico
a oertain proportion of such releases in exoess of 8,500,000 acre
feet.

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(The figures used in paragraph 5 are indioative and not
necessarilyexaot).

6. Any treaty should provide that the United States is under
no obligation to deliver, and Mexico shall not be in a position
to demand, water which oannot be benefioially used in Mexico for
domestio and agrioultural purposes.

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7. That any &mount of water reaohing Mexioo in exoess of
the amount speoified in the treaty shall not. oonstitute a basis
for a demand in the future on the part of Mexioo beoause of the
utilization of such waters. j

Following the disposition of the Mexioan question, there ensued disoussion
of general matters, particularly with respeot to pending appropriations be-
fore the Congress for Colorado River reclamation development..

Mr. Pughe referred to proposal for the construotion of Dewey Dam on the
Colorado River for p~rer purposes and its relation to the proposed Eoho Park
Reservoir project. Brief discussion ocnoerning the matter followed.