WSP00313

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1960
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1960
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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ADMINISTRATION OF THE RIO GRANDE COMPACT

A Compact, known as the Rio Grande Compact, between
the States of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, having become
effective on May 31, 1939 by consent of the Congress of the
United States, which equitably apportions the waters of the
Rio Grande above Fort Quitman and permits each state to
develop its water resources at will, subject only to its
obligations to deliver water in accordance with the sched-
ules set forth in the Compact, the following Rules and
Regulations have been adopted for its administration by the
Rio Grande Compact Commission; to be and remain in force
and effect only so long as the same may be satisfactory to
each and all members of the Commission, and provided always
that on the objection of any member of the Commission, in
writing, to the remaining two members of the Commission
after a period of sixty days from the date of such objec-
tion, the sentence, paragraph or any portion or all of
these rules to which any such objection shall be made,
shall stand abrogated and shall thereafter have no further
force and effect; it being the intent and purpose of the
Commission to permit these rules to obtain and be effective
only so long as the same may be satisfactory to each and
all of the Commissioners.

GAGING STATIONS Ll

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Responsibili ty for the equipping, maintenance and ii,
operation of the stream gaging stations and reservoir gaging III
stations required by the provisions of Article II of the i
Compact shall be divided among the signatory States as
follows:

(a) Gaging stations on streams and reservoirs in the
Rio Grande Basin above the Colorado-New Mexico boundary
shall be equipped, maintained, and operated by Colorado in
cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey.

(b) Gaging stations on streams and reservoirs in the
Rio Grande Basin below Lobatos and above Caballo Reservoir
shall be equipped, maintained and operated by New Mexico in
cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey to the extent
that such stations are not maintained and operated by some
other Federal Agency.

(c) Gaging stations on Elephant Butte Reservoir and on
Caballo Reservoir, and the stre~l gaging stations on the
Rio Grande below those reservoirs shall be equipped,
maintained and operated by or on behalf of Texas through
the agency of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Ll Amended at Eleventh Annual Meeting, February 23, 1950.

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