WSP05515

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/13/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #14
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

" The iYiexican Alliance has shattered the Boulder Canyon
PO\'ler Dam Project. The Wyoming Decision in the United States Supreme
Court has eliminated the Colorado doct:t'ine as to interstate
1,rater rights. The original arguments to sustain the necessity
for this Colorado River .Commission have been wiped off the
slate, any action by it nO\.1 can serve no useful purpose and
will be futile.

" To epitomize- delay threatens. the pre.sent plans for
flood protection from four sources:

1. The. inextricable interrelation between the B'oulder
Ccinyon Power Project and the establishment in i:lexico of a
competitive Asiatic City and State.

2. The complexities of the scheme for financing the
Boulder Canyon P01,1er Project by bonding municipalities taking
p01,ler from the dam.

3. The inevitable sustained opposition to anycon~act
between tho states, until the facts relating teareas irrigable,
character ef 1,rorks and cost of construction are lcnown.

4. The irreconcilable dete~nination to prevent any
compact that would under any circumstances diminish the total
flow at the llorth line of Arizona and thereby proportionately
reduce the potential power resource in the Grand Canyon' of
Arizona, \'lhich is a stupendous nationo.l asset.

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" Unless this Commission wishes to endanger the existence
of the Imperial Valley and the Yuma Project.by delay, it can
do only one thing, and that is to defer any effort to foree
a compact botween thG StatGs and eoncentrate all its.influence
on immediate flood relief, urging upon Congress the necessity
for works to control and regulate the flow of the riv~r being
imril~diatoly built and fer a complete survey, investigation and
report at National expense as a basis for an ultimate plan for
the highest development of all the reso~rces ef the Colorado
Rive;r as a great national asset.

" A plan for immediate national action that will dis-
entangle flood protection from all compli.cations causing delay ,
and afford immediate and complete S;'lfety from flood devastation
for the Imperiai Valley and the Yurna project, and the entire
Colorado River country, is as follo\1s:

1. Adopt the Dayton-l1iana River Flood Control Plan on the
Gila River and build the Sentinel Reservoir with all possible
expedition as an emergency flood protection structure:

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