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

2. Adopt the plan urged in the La Rue Report and build
the Bull's Head dam as a similar flood control dam, to hold
back the flood of the Colorado River long enough to close a
break if one should occur similar to the break of 1906-07:

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3. Build the Glen Canyon Dam solely and only as a
flood control dam, without any reference whatever to any use
of the water for reclamation or power development. It can be
built with half the monoy and in half the time required to
build the Boulder Canyon Dam, and 1dill afford complete relief
for the entire flood menaced region in Arizona and California.

11 This plan removes the flood protection problem of
Imperial Valley and Yuma entirely from any complication with
the conflict arising from the plans of Arizona and California
to reclaim 2,000,000 acres in those states ,lith the ,later of
the Colorado River 1,hich it is sought to secure for the re-
clamation of a similar area in Mexico for the establishment
there of an Asiatic City and State for an Asiatic agricultural
Colony in Mexican territory.

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11 There can be no justification for this Commission
doing anything that will aid that Americo-Mexican-Asiatic
conspiracy against the United States of America; nor for comp-
licating or delaying the relief necessary for the Imperial
Valley and Yuma qy an adherence to the Boulder Canyon Power
project, or by attempting to force the adoption of a compact
at this time uhieh is impossible Hithout further surveys and
investigations. Those surveys and investigations should be made
by the Statos and the United States through existing agencies,
The time is not yet ripo for the creation of any new Commission
on the Oolorado River. It would merely create complications
and do more harm than good causing delays otherHise unnecessary.

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11 Hhat is desperately needed to end an appalling danger is
immediate appropriations by Oongress for expenditure through
existing national agencies for flood control. An effort to
create new machinery nOH means delay Hhere dolay may be fatal
to existing communi ties, cities, t01-mS and farms.

Respectfully submitted,

1~iTIOllli1 RECUU'~TION ASSOCIATION

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By George H. Maxwell,

Executive Director. 11

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Dated November 13th, 1922,

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