WSP01835

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/11/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #11
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

MR. HOOVER; For a better understanding of this proposal,

we could reduce it to certain contained principles so that we

should not take time 1v.lth discussion of phraseology or minor

questions~ I just made a note as I went along, rather to illus-
trate.what I.had. in mind, of the fundamental principles as I

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understand the pact~ The Colorado River Basin to be regarded

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as the entire 1<atershed including the Imperial and Coachella

Valleys; that the principle of prior utilization-throughout
the basin should rule, 1<ith a limitation of time during which

that rule would ope.rate, Is that correct)'.

MR. NORVIEL: Yes, sir, that is correct. The vital

principle of the whole .thing .is.to stay as nearly with the

law as is possible. He have fixed a period, or 1,e have allo,led
a period to .be fixed. It is flexible at this time. The

Commission shall fix the period of time for which this shall

operate. He have segregated the classes, or they really

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s~gregate themselves. First, river control, which is hardly

a use of ,later but ,Ie. recognize that the first thing in the

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river, perhaps, to be done is to control the river, to control

the flood. The next use is.municipal or domestic. The next

is agriculture and the last is power. Each of these ~n their

use takes preceden~e over those that follow. For instance,

:.,a,g:dculture is servient to municipal and dOlOOstic uses all

through. Power is servient to both mUllicipal and domestic

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and agriculture uses, - for this period of time at least.

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There being, as weunderstahd it, a desire on the part of the

whole of the inhabitants of the Valley, or of tho Basin, that

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