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<br />G'~ <br />O~. ',-, <br />U t ~ ~" '-' <br /> <br /><~ <br />"''''',,) <br />~~~? <br /> <br />recommendations concerning project rehabilitation, including the <br />provisions of storage. The engineer recommended construction of <br /> <br />a storage dam at the Red Bluff site in New Mexico to serve all <br /> <br />ten of the river projects. <br /> <br />The engineer foresaw that "the <br /> <br />interstate character of the situation would present problems <br /> <br />requiring solution," <br /> <br />The Association reorganized and further <br /> <br />requested chat the Federal government assume the role of arbiter <br />of water rights and supervise the apportionment of Pecos River <br />water not only between users in New Mexico and Texas but among <br /> <br />users in Texas itself, <br /> <br />In 1920, the Bureau of Reclamation, representing landowners <br /> <br />in the Car1sbad Irrigation District, brought suit in Federal <br /> <br /> <br /><<~;) District Court in New Mexico asking that all rights served by the <br /> <br />Pecos River above Car1sbad be determined by the court. <br /> <br />This <br /> <br />suit, entered as United States v, Hope Community Ditch, et aI" <br />resulting in one of the first adjudication of water rights in the <br /> <br />basin, <br /> <br />The results of the action, commonly called the "Hope <br /> <br />Decree," were issued in 1933 and defined rights to water use in <br /> <br />most areas above Lake McMillan. <br /> <br />Subsequently, areas outside <br /> <br />those covered by the Hope Decree were also adjudicated until, at <br />present, practically all lands irrigated from surface water in <br /> <br />the basin have been defined by court decrees, <br /> <br />The interstate water problem on the Pecos River before New <br /> <br />Mexico and Texas had the example set some years earlier by <br />irrigators in the two states in the interstate Reclamation <br /> <br />17 <br />