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. NORVIEL: I started out with that view and I worked

hard and studied for along time and the more I worked at it

the .more difficult it seemed to be and the more impossible.

of administration in the future and the more I became con-

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vinced that it would be impossible even after the allocation

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was made to ailininister the water on any kind of a basis other

than an acreage basis,- and that apparently was not acceptable,

_ so I have taken in lieu the principle that seems to me to

be the most just, legal, accurate and correct principle that
evolved
can be in a matter of this kind.

HR. EHERSOIr; In some of my letters to you I discussed

the difficulty as to working out an allocation in practice.

To my mind and from my experience in administering water

supplies, it seems to me that a plan could be worked out that

would be fairly simple and entirely practical.

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MR. NORVIEL: I think that is the exact tenure of our

compact. We have adopted the most simple, practical, feasible

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proposition that has been proposed.

~ffi. E~~RSON: That is in your own estimation.

MR. NORVIEL: And as to the division of the basin into

two division, it isn't, as I conceive it, what we were

appointed for. It doesn't arrive at any conclusion, and, as it

is stated, it leaves. the two divisions to work out their own

salvation on whatever plan they.may choose in the future and

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as Colorado and all of the states have asserted that they are

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"Simon Pure" appropriation states, no doubt they Hill folloH

that principle hereafter as before and the southern states,

llth-S.F.
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