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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with the development over the next 50 or 100.years of the upper

territory. If it is thought wise and more prudent that some kind
of limitatio~ be put upon this, not ~n the short period of 10,15,

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or 20 years, but a proper time, the ~ife of states considered, I

will be very glad to enter into dismission. Ny thought is this,

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to bring about ?-n ?-djustment in line ,lith that ,Ihich has heretofore
been thought could be obtained, that lis to say a full development
of the lower river as rapidly as pOSSible with a full declaration

of protection against adverse claims on behalf of that construction

against the upper states in the year~ to follow, because we realize

that the development on the lower ri;fer is imminent and to a degree

are willing to forego demands that we might justly make in order to

bring that about., When ,Ie have thus I aided wherever we can to bring

that about, our past experience has taught us to bear well in mind

that before we enter upon any such an undertaking we must be assured

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that we will not be penalized. It htS been forced upon us by a

department of Government naturally a~nistered by human beings.
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Through errors of judgme~t on their ]bart, He have been brought into

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that defensive position.

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HR. SCRUGlJAH: Hould you accept I a change in your proposal as
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follows: "That the construction of tny and all reservoirs or other

IForks in any state upon the stream system shall in no manner arrest
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or interfere Hith the subsequent dev~lopment of the territory of

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any of the other states or the use of the water therein for a period

of twenty years. At the expiration pf the time as agreed upon, and

if the demands for water from the st~eam system render it necessary
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