WSP06521

• File Number: 8111.831
• Description: Arkansas River Compact Administration - Article VIII ‎(H)‎ Investigations
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/1985
• Author: David Pope
• Title: Supplement Report to ARCA Regarding Article VIII ‎(H)‎
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Introduction

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At its second meeting on June 3, 1985, the Investiga-
tion Committee constituted pursuant to Article VIII .(H)
agreed to compile data and prepare a series of mass diagrams
as a preliminary assessment of changes in the regimen of the
Arkansas River. The diagrams were presented by each state
at the Committee's meeting on July 12, 1985, at which time
the ,Committee undertook initial discussions of the diagrams.
After considerable discussion it was agreed that each state
would prepare a report explaining its interpretation of the
data and the diagrams.
The reports were exchanged on September 6, 1985, in
anticipation of the Committee's fourth meeting on September
17, 1985, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Instead of agreeing to
submit the reports to the Administration as descriptive of
the differing conclusions of the states, the Committee
undertook to identify the factual matters on which the
states agreed and to discuss the respective conclusions that
had been drawn by the states. Neither state was able to
persuade the other that it's conclusions regarding the
efficacy of certain diagrams and the changes in slope
reflected in certain other diagrams were the appropriate
conclusions to have reached. As a result, each state agreed
to prepare a second report to explicate and clarify the
conclusions presented in the first reports.
The differences in opinion as to the significance of
the mass diagrams derive from the Committee members' initial
disagreement over the scope of work contemplated by the

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