WSP01206

• File Number: 8200.300l49.B
• Description: Upper Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 10/11/1948
• Author: UCRB States
• Title: Upper Colorado River Compact
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

of 5,000,000 acre-feet for any period of ten consecutive years

reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day

of October next succeeding the ratification and approval of this Compact,

In the event any diversion is made from the Yampa River or. from

tributaries entering the Yampa River above the Maybell Gaging Station

for the benefit of any water use project in the State of Utah, then the

gross amount of all such diversions for use in the State of Utah, less

any returns from such diversions to the River above Maybell, shall

be added to the actual flow at the Maybell Gaging Station to determine

the total flow at the Maybell Gaging Station.

(b) All consumptive use of the waters of the Yampa River and

its tributaries shall be charged under the apportionment of Article III

hereof to the State in which the use is made; provided, that consump-

tive use incident to the diversion, impounding or conveyance of water

in one State for use in the other shall be charged to the latter State.

AR TICLE XIV

Subject to the provisions of this Compact, the consumptive

use of the waters of the San Juan River and its tributaries is hereby

apportioned between the States of Colorado and New Mexico as follows:

The State of Colorado agrees to deliver to the State of New.

Mexico from the San Juan River and its tributaries which rise in the

State of Colorado a quantity of water which shall be sufficient, to-

gether with water originating in the San Juan aasin in the State of

New Mexico, to enable the State of New Mexico to make full use of
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