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

to other uses and then in turn. that the power.for manufactur-

ing should be subsel'lTient to the remaining uses. It was my

thought that it is unnecessary to proceed. further because,

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as I say, of the negligible effect of domestic uses.

The word " municipal " I included. The more I have thought

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of it the more I was fnclincd to think it should pe eliminated.

It is too broad a phrase. The thought at that time was this;

that there have arisen questions as to whether or not a diver-

sion by a city for use in sprinkling streets, for illustrat-

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ion, is domestic use and my. idea of .the using the word

"municipal " WaS to include such uses as follo\;ed as

incidental to municipal development. It has been called to my

attention that the \;ord "municipal" might be taken to

include power development by a municipality which ,las not my

intent and inasmuch as I do not differentiate it in defining

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the preferences as between agriculture and domestic, leaving
them to take care of themselves, the word" municipal"

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might just as ,lell be eliminated.

MR. CALDv1ELL: On that line, Mr. Chairman, I call attention

to the fact that in the draft that I submitted I think I said

domestic and culinary for much the same reasons Hr. Carpenter

has pointed out.

MR. HOOVER: Isn't the broad principal here something of

this order; that there.should be a division of the vTater

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between the states in the upper and the lower groups.

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Then comes the question.as to what rule shall dominate the

inter_relations in ea.ch group. In other \'Tords I each group

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