WSP04117

• File Number: 8282.600.10
• Description: Colorado River Operating Annual Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1976
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Operation of the Colorado River Basin 1976 Projected Operations 1977
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

Lower Basin Requirements

Mexican Treaty Obligations

Annual calendar year schedules of monthly de-
liveries of water in the iimitrophe section of the
Colorado River, allotted in accordance with the
Mexican Water Treaty signed in 1944, are formu-
lated by the Mexican Seclion and presented to
the United States Section, International Boundary
and Water Commission, before the beginning of
each catendar year.

Upon 30 days' advance notice to the United States
Section, Mexico has the right to modify, within the
total scheduie, any monthly quantity prescribed
by the schedule by not more than 20 percent of
the monthly quantity, In addition to the 1.5 million
acre-feet of scheduled Treaty deliveries, approxi-
mately 15,000 acre-feet are projected for regula-
tory wastes and approximately 206,000 acre-feet of
Wellton-Mohawk drainage water will be bypassed
around Morelos Dam, Mexico's diversion structure,
pursuant to Minute No, 242.

Metropolitan Water District intake,on Lake Havasu.