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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JUDGE SLOAN: It is quite accurate to say that demand from

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Mexico is fixed, because the demand from the Imperial Valley is

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fixed. As I understand it, they are not taking, In Mexico~ one-

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half of the water under the contract, but they might exceed upon

that by the developmento of additional lands, - that's the practical

thing that would effe,ct th,is seven and a half mi'llion acre feet

allotment.

MR. CARPENTER: Judge Sloan, until the All-l~erican canal is

built the acreage that would be included in the increased demand

is shut off, leaving that osurplus in the river.

JUDGE SLOl.N: In the e,vent that's bui It.

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MR. CARPENTER: No, I said until the seven gnd a half million

acre feet, there is considered an increase in the Imperial Valley

for future development wasn't there? Now, then, until that future

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development that water remains in the stream and goes on down. '

JUDGE SLOAN: But that doesn't meet the objection.
MR. Cl,RPENTER: It does, for this reason, when that canal is

built tl1e international d<;lvelopmel1t will be handled that way.
MR. HOOVER: It becomes a burden on the two basins.

JUDGE SLOl.N: What I am saying, assume now that they increase
their demnds up to the full quantity of water that the Imperial

Valley llIay use, or carry in their canal. That would be a million

aore fest,-more that that,- that would enter into the -calculations.

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MR. Cl.RPENTER: DonI t you get Mr. Hooverl's reasoning, that
the Imperial Valley itself would not be making a demand for the

inorease, it would be Mexican, lands.

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JUDGE SLOl.N: You overlook just the point I made' before. The
Mexican government might say."You oanlt get a drop unless you give