WSP06778

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1943
• Title: Fifth Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1943
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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.....' ADJUSTMENTS OF RECORDS

The Commission shall keep a record of the looation and desoription
of eaoh gaging station and evaporation station. and, in the event of
ohange in location of any stream gaging station for any reason. it shall
ascertain the increment in flow or deorease in flow between suoh looations
for all stages. wherever practicable, conourrent reoords shall be obtain-
ed tor one year before abandonment of the previous station.

NEW OR INCREASED DEPUTIONS

In the event e:tJ:1 works are oonstruoted whioh alter or may be expeot-
ed to alter the flow at an.y of the Index Gaging Stations mentioned in the
Compaot. or whioh may otherwise neoessitate adjustments in the application
of the sohedules set forth in the Compaot. it shall be the duty of the
Commissioner specifioally concerned to file with the Commission all avail-
able information pertaining thereto. and appropriate adjustments shall be
made in acoordanoe with the terms of the Compaotl provided, however, that
any such adjustments shall in no way inorease the burden imposed upon
Colorado or N_ Mexico under the schedules of deliveries established by
the Compact.

TRANS-MOUNTADi DIVERSIONS

In the event any works are oonstruoted for the delivery of waters in-
to the drainage oasin of the Rio Grande from my streBm system outside of
the Rio Gran.de Basin, suoh waters shall be measured at the point of delivery
into the Rio Gran.de Basin lII1d proper allowance shall be made for losses in
transit from suoh points to the Index Gaging station on the stre81!l with
whioh the imported waters are commingled.

QUALITY OF WATER

In the event that delivery of water is made from the Closed Basin into
the Rio Grande. sufficient samples of suoh _ter shall be analyzed to as':'
certain whether the quality thereof is within the limits established by
the Compaot.

SECRETARY

The Commission shall employ a seoretary who shall be a registered
professional engineer, or a Corporate Member of the Amerioan Sooiety of
Civil Engineers, experienoed in irrigation. agrioultural or hydraulio
engineering. lhe period of employment of the seoretary shall be at the
pleasure of the Commission but not exoeeding one year. at the end of
whioh period h1sservices shall automatically terminate, provided, how-