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. McCLURE: . The figures subm!itted by the ;Reclamation Service

may be substantially correct. Can we from that arrive at state-
'. ments from which to work?

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MR. CALDWELL:

I do not. know what the statements could be, Mr.
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McClure .

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MR. llOOVER:

We 1.Jere \.Jorldng ijhis morning on the possibil:j.ty of

arriving at a possible maximum acreage for each state for the next

twenty years, with a 'plan of
for any' new'acreage that.may

givin~ additional. rights at that time
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come ~nto sight at that' time, . thus

giving any new acreage the priorit~ of the surplus water of the

river. The sU!lllllary.'of possible ac~eage of each state as given by

the Reclamation Service is shown in Table A, minutes of, 6th Meet-

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ing. The "claimslf: entered by the ~arious Cominissioners i.llShown

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in Table B minutes of 6th Neeting. j' This latter table. is possibly
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.... in exces s of the total wa te r.

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The ,first table should furnish a

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basis of limitation for it period arid give necessary assurances for

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development:

protection

to the co~strUctionof "orks; and if after
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Has proved, .they' could be given priorities
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20 years further acreage

on the 'remaining Hater -- this cou1d cover the noxt 100 years.
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MR. CALDvffiLL:, I thin~ I ~avelunderstood the situation for

. NR. HOOVER:

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I thiruc Nr. carplnter said the other day that
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over one million I eight hundred thousand acres

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quite a while, Nr. Chairman.

their estimate of

was subjeqt to modification on the:j.r part.

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