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

~ ~

1. That the construction of such works should be expedited

at the earliest possible moment under such conditions as will give

priority to flood control and irrigation over questions of power.

.

~ffi. E~~RSON: Mr. Chairman, I' can say that that is going a .
,

little further than we need tO'go at thls time and to me it ap_

.

pears that it

i
is really going too far, if ue wish to go through

the procedure of a public hearing so thrt the different parties

interested can express themselves, beca~se the deciding upon who
i
shall build that reservoir \?ould be morF or less predicted upon
I
the views of the various communities an~ parties in interest,. To

my mind this meeting should result, if possible, in a general

plan of agreement as to water rights fo~ irrigation. It seems to

i
me that we are all convinced that a gre~t reservoir upon the low:"

er river is necessary. At least I am thoroughly convinced. and

that will act both as a protection for water rights below and for

.

\?ater rights above. Hyoming is at the head of this thing. The

,

in which that is true altogether.

O~r position is the only one

, '
All :tha t vJyomihg wants is this:
I

water runs from us to other States.

That if a large reservoir is construct~d upon the Colorado River,

a priority of right is not obtained by:the construction of that'
reservoir and use of water therefrom t~at will preclude or inter-
fere with developments in Hyoming as slme became economically
!

feasible from time to time. He have g~t to put a limit on acreage

.

,
I know absolutely that that was in the!mind of Mr. Mondell that we

.

must say or put some limit on acres of land in the use of various

H.