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

much as money is checked from the bank, It is there, locked

up, and is available to all,

$. NORVIEL: I perhaps ought to ask Hr, Davis a quest-

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ion, first, on the proposition Mr, Caldwell just now raised,

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" Hhy waste it to the sea?" Assuming, of course, that we

have a large storage capacity below, _ I "Iill ask Hr. Davis if

the minimum fl01f of six million acre_feet Hould supply the

presont demands 'on the lower river and waste any to the sea ?

}lR. CARPENTER: You are assuming that is all they get,

$. NORVIEL: Assuming that is all that comes down in

one year,

MR. A. P. DAVIS: If regulated, as you say in reservoirs,
for the present development.
that would be enough! The present requirement belOH Lee's

Ferry for present development is about four million acre-feet,

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including the use from tributaries, but I thought your request

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Has for a minimum of five million,

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MR. NORVEL: Mr, CaldHell raised me one more, Well, Hhat-

ever it is, five or six million, if that were the minimum flow

demanded after the reservoir was fairly--

}!R. A. P. DAVIS: The present area in the United States

irrigated from the main river below Leels Ferr,y is 508,000

acres exclusive of Nevada's requirements and in Mexico 190,000,

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The total amount required n01{ for American lands, including
is
Nevada,! 2,560,006 acre-feet from the main stream,

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$. NORVIEL: Is that the Imperial Valley and the Palo

Verde ?

MR. A. P.

DAVIS: ,From the main Colorado River.
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Of course

that doesn't include what is diverted from the Salt River,
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