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

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applied to this river. He have a representative of the

United States and we have an Enabling Act of Congress so

I presume that is a thing 'de 1,TOuld be entitled to pass upon,

and it is a very important question, in my mind.

The third question would be. that of preference rights.

That has all been treated in these compacts.

JlJ(. SCRUGHAH; Do you mean as betueen irrigation, power

and so on?

~ffi. Ep~RSON; Yes. For instance, in each case domestic

and municipal use has been given preference over irrigation.

I can't conceive that there should be any preference.of those

rights over irrigation, except as acquired by condemnation

of irrigation rights,
Another question that should be considered is whether

or not judgment should be passed upon economic feasibility

of any development, or uhether that should be left to the
economic laH,

To my mind those are.main basic questions that must be

decided, upon Hhich the determination can be made as to whether

or not He can agree,

NR. CARPENTI:R: Mr. Chairman, in the draft uhich I sub-

mitted I make navigation subservient to all other uses, and

pOWer subservient to the remaining uses and leave the matter

of preference bet,reen domestic and irrigation unsettled for

the reason that all domestic rights are negligible in quantity
and are largely, if not altogether, controlled by the local

law of the states so I Hent.no further, in my definition

of preferences, than to say navigation should be subservient

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