WSP07244

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/19/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #20
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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MR. NORVIEL: Write it for laymen and I would see what it

means.

MR. EMERSON: I think in all the states, the water is declared
to be the property of the state, and when you speak of deter~ination

by any state, it refers to the whole volume of water within the

state.

MR. HOOVER: Is that satisfactory now,' Norviel? (addressing

the rest) Is that satisfactory? (Everyone assents) Then we can

pass that article. This is a new edition of 'Purposes', the con-

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tents of which have been suggested by various parties: liThe
maj or purpose of this ,oompact is to provide for the equi table
division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado
River System among the seven states signatory to this compact in

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order to promote interstate comity by removing causes of present
and future controversies between them, and thus to assure the
expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the
Colorado River Basin through storage of its waters and the early

erection of river control works for the protection of the Imperial

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Valley. To this end the Basin,js divided into tjodivisions and
apportionment of the, use of a~ equal amount of the waters made to
each of them with provisions that at 0. subsequent time a further
equitable apportionment of the use of the remaining unappropriated
waters may be made to correct the 'inequities that cannot now be
foreseen; and the relative importance of different beneficial uses
may be established and provision made for settlement of future

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'controversies.u I have incorporated one idea of my' own in relation

to the control works in the Imperial Valley in the hope it might

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