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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8200.300.40.A
Description
Colorado River Compact
Basin
Colorado Mainstem
Date
1/26/1922
Author
Co. R Compact Comm.
Title
Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission on Compact Negotiations - Meeting #1
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<br />! <br />I <br />I <br />38 I 38 <br /> <br />the Canyon Region, and that, as welljas the possibility of that inter- <br /> <br />fering with irrigation development, led me to the qoncl~sion that no <br /> <br />.. , <br />inatter Hhat it costs, provided it Vla~ feasible, \-Te should deyelop <br /> <br /> <br />. storage in the Lo,ler Basin, and pursj1ing that line it occurred to me <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />that we \-Tould have difficulties to overcome Hhich I found Here non- <br /> <br />;to <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />is discussed in this report, The fu~l needs for irrigation cannot be <br /> <br />foreseen and it is alVlays necessary ~o have enough water running so <br />i <br />. as to have no ~hortage and to providb for the extreme case, \Thich <br />! .. <br /> <br />u. .seldom happens., but <br /> <br />that means that lnost of the time a great deal of <br />, - <br />i <br /> <br />the W3.ter runs a\,ay and that is alHays the Case with a large river <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. reservoir and at Boulder and Black Canyon there \-Till be some waste <br />! <br /> <br />on account of their great distance bpt they are closer and more <br />. . . I . <br />centrally located than any of the re~ervoirs of the Upper Basin or <br />I . <br />any of .thb other reservoirs in the L:o\-Ter Basin, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Mr, NcClure. <br /> <br />It is your idea <br /> <br />, <br />i <br />that ,Iherever power is developed <br />! <br /> <br />. it shall be subservient to irrigatieps? <br />, <br />I <br />Mr. 'Davis. Yes, sir; I think t):1at should be insisted on. I <br />i <br />have. so recommended in this report, ~nd another point which none of <br /> <br />. , <br />. , . , <br />you have mentioned exeept Hr. Emersop is the importance of regulating <br /> <br />the riVer to prevent the destructive: floods that have so menaced the <br />I <br />'- existence of IIDperial Valley and arej so expensive to the valleys <br /> <br />along the river itself because duririg high stages of the river it <br />I <br />change sits course, doing all sorts !of inexplicable things and being a <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />
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