BOARD02551

• Board Meeting Date: 8/11/1965
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

on that ratio. The state of Colorado gets
51.75 percent of the water that remains at
Lee Ferry theoretically, after we take care
of our burdens to the Lower Basin.

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I figured 750,000 for Old nexico but I
did not figure any depletion of our reser-
voirs because of evaporation and if I had
figured the evaporation that would amount to
about 750,000. So my figures are accurate,
I think, without taking into consideration
the delivery to old Nexico. tinder the present
virgin flow of the river for this present ten-
year cycle, and following the formulas that
have been established by the two compacts
with respect to the water of the Colorado
River, Colorado would only get 1,602,130
acre-feet of water a year. That isn't enough
to take care of our present expenditures of
water. New Mexico would get 348,290; utah
would get 712,057; and Wyoming would get
433,426. Northeast Arizona would get 50,000
acre-feet of water annually. They are already
taking some of that \'later, but very little,
for their powerplants.

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So, if my figures are accurate, and I
believe that they are accurate, and if my
interpretation of the compacts is accurate,
and I believe that it is accurate, outside
of that one question of delivery of water to
~~xico and the evaporation charge that might
be made, then if my figures are accurate, the
shortage is of today. I have figured out the
total water, including the surplus water in
the Upper Basin, and as I figure, the total
water supply in this ten-year period on an
annual basis is 4,213,703. Now this particu-
lar ten-year period is a low water period.
It's one of the dry periods but it's not the
lowest water period that we have on record.
The lowest water period occurred in 1931 and
until 1940. Less water was produced at that
time than was produced in this present ten-
year period.