WSP03154

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1950
• Title: Twelfth Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1950
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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actual release and releases at such average rate; provided, further,
that Colorado, or New Mexico, or both, may relinquish accrued credits
at any time, and Texas may accept such relinquished water, and in
such event the state, or states, so relinquishing shall be entitled
to store water in the amount of the water so relinquished.

ARTICLE VIII

During the month of January of any year the Commissioner for
Texas may demand of Colorado and New Mexico, and the Commissioner
for New Mexico may demand of Colorado, the release of water from stor-
age reservoirs constructed after 1929 to the amount of the accrued
debits of Colorado and New Mexico, respectively, and such releases
shall be made by each at the greatest rate practicable under the con-
ditions then prevailing, and in proportion to the total debit of each,
and in amounts, limited by their accrued debits, sufficient to bring
the quantity of usable water in project storage to 600,000 acre-feet
by March first and to maintain this quantity in storage until April
thirtieth, to the end that a normal release of 790,000 acre-feet may
be found from project storage in that year.

ARTICLE IX

Colorado agrees with New Mexico that in event the United States
or the State 'of New Mexico decides to construct the necessary works
for diverting the waters of the San Juan River, or any of its tribu-
taries, into the Rio Grande, Colorado hereby consents to the con-
struction of said works and the diversion of waters from the San Juan
River, or the tributaries thereof, into the Rio Grande in New Mexico,
provided the present and prospective uses of water in Colorado by other
diversions from the San Juan River, or its tributaries, are protected.

ARTICLE X

In the event water from another drainage basin shall be imported
into the Rio Grande basin by the United States or Colorado or New
Mexico, or any of them jointly, the State having the right to the use
of such water shall be given proper credit therefor in the application
of the schedules.

ARTICLE XI

New Mexi.co and Texas agree that upon the effective date of this
Compact all controversies between said States relative to the quantity
or quality of the water of the Rio Grande are composed and settled;
however, nothing herein shall be interpreted to prevent recourse by
a signatory state to the Supreme Court of the United States for re-
dress should the character or quality of the water, at the point of
delivery, be changed hereafter; by one signatory state to the injury
of another. Nothing herein shall be construed as an admission by any
signatory state that the use of water for irrigation causes increases