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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practio<tl development out of the river and its tributaries prac-

. tical considero.tions of finance and politics make it seem advis-

able to set a maximum limit of use by each state of the waters

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of the river and its tributaries, by agreement to extend over a

period of years at which time any necessary readjustment may be

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considered, and that a permo.nent Commission should be created

which shall undertake such re-adjustments at such period of time.
That last provision is acceptable to me if there is a continuing

Commission. I might say, whereby the need of any state that might

find that they could irrigate acreage in excess of that allotted
to
Ii t, could .be.. considered by the Commission. Now in support of

that I might say that Wyoming realizes that this is a matter of

co-opera~ion, ,that our viewpoints differ. We think we have a

lesson in point upon the construction of a reservoir upon the

lower river and the investment of certain rights there. When

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such a reservoir 'is established an embargo is placed upon the

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Upper River. That is a thing we wish to keep away from. Wyoming,.

therefore, cannot be expected to subscribe to any program that

on1yp.roposes a development of the lower river 1<1 i thout return-

ing to us a reasonable agreement as to the protection of our rights.

It seems to me that in consideration of the practical phases of

the matter, we must place some limit for the development before

we can expect proper action by the several legislatures to ratify

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any agreement or compact that may he proposed by this Commission.

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