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

MR. CARPENTER: I understand.

NR. A. P. DAVIS: ,fuy no, not that mhch so far as the

estimate in this book is concerned. (Indicating Senate Document

142, 67th Congress, 2nd Session, II Problems of Imperial Valley

and Vicinityll.) I don't Hant to unduly j:1ut that fOrHard, but

that is my opinion, that the future irrigation in the upper

basin, as far as I can predict it, is not to exceed two and one-

half million acres, which, on a consumptive use of one and one-

half acre-feet, Hhich is rnore, I believe, than they figure up

there, results in a use of three and thr?e quarter million. I

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think thre and three-quarters million isiabundance to estimate

for future irrigation uses up there, and. alloH half a million

or three-quarter of a million acre-feet to be taken out of the

basin additional. That leaves four and 'one-half total.

MR. HOOVER: Five million is a pretty liboral estimate ?

MR. A. P. DAVIS: Yes.

MR. HOOVER: In othor Hords, on the famine flow there is

still five million acre-feet left at Le$ ',s Ferry?,

MR. A. p. DAVIS: Yes,
MR. HOOVER: There probably would be physically that much.

MR. CARPENTER: Mr. Chairman, \;e must be a little broad
ness--
in ttis matter. vie can't partition this river ~Tith exact

MR. HOOVER: I agree with you. I~ seems to me that assum-

ing that storage, is an issue in the Imver river, as it probably

will be an issue, the uppor states have a right to credit for

the water that they may have contributod in excoss, Now I am.

talking against a famino period. If the upper states have
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