WSP07217

• 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
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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stream where navigationhusexisted or where it may exist under

ordinary methods and.the introductio* of the motor boat has vastly
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extended the nuvigable capacity of our streams. 'We find there are

many localities ,lhere boats are carrying one, two or three tons,

maype.five tons, engaged in actual business enterprises and parties

bring their produce and goods down to such points "here they can be

reached by the boats and the goods a~e then either transferred to

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larger boats or are put on the railrpads.

Hr. Norviel. And 1That would be' your report ",hen your boat load

of produce was held up for ten months?

.Oeneral Beach. I reported that stream as not a navigable stream

bepause I do not regard it as a navigable stream where you can simply
run.on top of a flood and,not on th~ ordinaty level,. The court

ruling is that a stream is navigable where navigation is or can be

carried on under the ordinary ,msthoqs of navigation. This means

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navigation for considerable periods iat a stretch. I would not say

for instance that the Ohio is not a 1 navigable stream and yet there

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are. times ,men one can not navigate 'it, for tHO or three months of

the year when at its 10Hest stage and bars are formed, but one can

navigate it for most of the year inithe lower portions und for
probably eight or nine months in th~ upper portions where navigation
is somewhat interrupted by ice.
Secretary Hoover (Chairman). Vnder treaty obligations are you

allowed the constru.ction of any Hor~s that might interfere with the

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normal navigation of the river?
General Beach,. Up.as far as the mouth of the Gila it is naviga-

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