WSP03626

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/30/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #7
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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MR. HOOVER: In other words, yoq think Mr.
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ought to be accepted by the other St~tes?

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Oarpenter's view

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MR. OAWvJELL: Mr. Ohairman, I have tried to remain open-minded
in these matters. I confess very fr~nkly that my leaning is toward
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the idea advanced by Mr. Oarpenter. iI do not want to be in the ..
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of thro,Ting the commission into a dead-lock on the proposition
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at this time. \'Ie should search for ~ome common ground that we can get on

and have this for a basis. I am not jprepared at this time to suggest
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that ground. Director Davis has mad~ a statement "There is 'plenty
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of water for all" and I am sure he n~ver meant to qualify that
statement in any ',1ay, for ,instance bJ! saying "I made this s ta te-

ment .on the basis of so many acres for Utah, so many for Oolorado;
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etc," I believe he will stay to/ stdtement" unqualifiedly.
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HR. OARPENTER: I might ,say tha~ this ,I~ole matter, of course,
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came rather impromptu. I neglected ~o state / earlier statement

that while nature has fixed certain ~arriers in the form of a

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continental divide down through the territory of Oolorado, there
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arc some existing diversions that art wholly consumptive, taking

the water through the, drainage. We vould be perfectly willing
to enter into a reasonablelimitatio* upon that wholly consumptive
use, not feeling that we should be m?re penalized than anyone else;
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so as to keep it more Hi thin bounds. i I might say, furthermore,
that He ,lish it distinctly understoo~ that our position in this
particular case should not constitut~ a precedent at all on any
other draina~e in Oolorado that might not be directly affected.

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