WSP07699

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 6/1/1921
• Author: Delph E. Carpenter
• Title: Report and Supplemental Report of Delph E. Carpenter, Commissioner for Colorado on the Colorado River Commission in RE: Colorado River Compact
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

:COLORl~,-1)O UTVBU COl\IPAO'r

The States I of Arizona, California, Oolor~do, Nevada, New
~fexico, 'Utah, ~nd 'Vyoming, having l'esolved to enter into a
compact under the Act of the Cougress of the United States' of
America, approved August 19, 1921 (42: Statuies at r~arge, page
171), and the Acts of the L-egislatures of the said States, have
through their Governors appointed us their Commissioners:

W, S, Norviel, for the State of Arizona;

W. F. MeClure, for the State of California;

Delph E. qarpcnter, for the State of Colorado;

J, G, Scrugham, for the State of Neyada;

Stephen Eo: Davis, Jr., for the State of New Mexico;

R. E. Caldjyell, for the State of Utah;

Frank C, mmersoll, for the State of Wyoming;

who, after negotiations participated in by Herbert Hoover, ap-
poi!1ted by the :President as the representative of the United States
of Amerir,a, haye agreed upon the following Articles:

AR~rICI'-]] I

'1'he major! purposes of this contract are to. provide for the
eqnitable diviSIon and apportionment of the use of the waters of -
the Colorado River System; to establish the relative importance
of different beneficial uses of water; to pl'omote interstate comtty;
to remove causes of present and future controversies, and to
secure the expeditious a.gricultural and industrial development
of the Colorado Hiyer Basin, the storage of its waters and tIlt'
protection of life and property from floods. To these enrls the
Oolorado Basiq i~ divided into two Basins, and an apportionment
of the use of part of the water of the Colorado River System is
made to each !:>f them with the pl'Ovision that further equitable
apportionment! may he' made.

I
As used in this compact:

(a) The term "Oolorado River System" means that porilon
of the Colorado River and its tributaries within the United States
of America,

(h j The i term "Oolorado 'River Basin" means all of the
drainage area ,of the Oolorado River System and all other terri-
tory within the United States of America to whieh the waters of
the ColOl'ado l}iver System shall be beueficia.lly applied,

(e) The term "States of the Upper Division" means the
States of Colorado, New Mexico, ptah and Wyoming.

AmrICLE II

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