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

Colorado River Compact and in this Compact" there is hereby appor-

(m) The term "domestic use" \shall include the use of water
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for household, stock, municipal, mininJ, milling, industrial and other
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like purposes, but shall exclude the ge~eration of electrical power.

(n) The term . 'vir gin flow" means the flow of any stream un-

depleted by the activities of man. I
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ARTICLE ml
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(a) Subject to the provisions and limitations contained in the

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tioned from the Upper Colorado River Isystem in perpetuity to the

States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mextco, Utah and Wyoming, re-
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spectively, the consumptive use of wa1;er as follows:
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(1) To the State of Arizon~ the consumptive use of
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50,000 acre-feet of wafer per annum,

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(2) To th:e States of COlorrdo, New Mexico, Utah and

Wyoming, r'espectivelr, the consumptive use per

annum of the quantitie~ resulting from the appli-
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cation of the fOllOwingl percentages to the total'

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quantity of consumptiie use per annum apportioned

in perpetuity to and ayailable for use each year by

Upper Basin under the Colorado River Compact and

remaining after the d~duction of the use, not to exceed
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50,000 acre-feet per~nnum, made in the State of

Arizona.

State of Colorado _ - - - - - - - 51.75 per cent,

State of New Mexico - - - - - - 11.25 per cent,

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