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<br />[ r; ] <br /> <br /> <br />000,000 acre-feet for any period of ten consecutive years (7,500,000 <br />Hcre.feet average amll1uI flow over any ten year period) if neces- <br />sary for use in the Lower Basin, This is approximately flfty pel' <br />cent, of the river flow at Lee' Ferry during the lowest ten-year <br />period of which we have a record, <br /> <br />Navigation is made subservient to all other uses, Power is <br />made subservient to domestic and agricultural uses, <br /> <br />State control of the appropriation, use, and disposition of <br />water withiu each State is left undisturbed, <br /> <br />Present perfected appropriations of water are not disturbed, <br />but such rights take their water from the apportionment to the <br />basin in which they are located, <br /> <br />All future controversies between two 01' more States of each <br />group are speciflcally reserved for separate consideration and <br />adjustment by separate commissions, 01' by direct legislation, <br />whenever such questions may arise, if ever they do. <br /> <br />Records of the river flow at Lee Feny are under the con'trol <br />of the State Engineers of the seven States and two representatives <br />of the United States, but the autbority of such officials terminates <br />with the ascertainment and publication of the facts, <br /> <br />'fhe compact maJ be terminated at any time by the unani- <br />mous agreement of the signator)' States. <br /> <br />FURTHER COMMI~:JNT <br /> <br />f <br /> <br />I take the liberty of offering the following ohservations: <br /> <br />The Upper Basin constitutes the principal source of the <br />water suppl)', All. waters returned tq the river from irriga.ted <br />lands within the Upper Basin will pass Lee Ferry and be mea- <br />sure(l as a part of the water to be delivered to the Lower Basin, <br />The upper States guarantee somewhat less thau one-half the <br />average annual flow of the river (at Lee Ferry) during the <br />ten yeal' period from 1902 to 1911, inclusive, which was the <br />period of the lowest recorded river flow, All water, hoth natural <br />a:nd return flow, which passes Lee Ferry will he credited to the <br />delivery by the upper States, There is no minimum or maximum <br />requirement for any particular year, The compact is satisfled <br />by an aggregate delivery of 75,000,000 acre feet of water during <br />any ten year period, - <br /> <br />The topography of the upper basin limits the extent to <br />which each of the upper States may go in its developmcut and <br />its conesponding consumption of river flow, As the various <br />trihutaries leave Oolorado and Wyoming they have already <br />entered into deep canyons and their waters are not available for <br />diversion in Utah, The Utah development will he conflned to <br />