WSP07971

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/16/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #18
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

till. HoovER: ~hat will elicit the whole agricultural oppos-

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lill. SCRUGH1J,;, That'lcaves it open to the objection, that

otherwise power will limit the agricultural uses.

ition to the pact.

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1,IR. CLRPENTER: For illustration and to further your thought,

we all agree that some great control must be placed upon the

river. In order to make control effectfvo for flood~ the oapaoi-

ty of the reservoir must bo' greater than tho minimum annual flow

of the river. Now in order to obtain repayment of the monies

oxpendod in that construction, the .energy of the water must be

utilized and converted into power. Flood control must bc pro-

videa. at an early date to avoid disastor. If built in tho lower

basin and the power titles are such that we, above, have to con-

demn them, the power monopoly would control agricultural develop-

ment for all time in the upper basin. ~hat is abhorrent to tho

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vn101o theory of oquitable division.

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1m. 'HOOVEIl: Yos, it will go further than that beeause if

you erect a dam a.t Eoulder Canyon, v/hich is both a control dam

and a storage dam for conserving tho high years, it will mean

that at a certain SQason of the year, of each year probably, it

will have no discharge at all. There are certain seasons of the

year, especially in a period of dry years, vnlon it would bo de-

sirablo teheld tho ontire flow of theriv0r for perhaps months

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and, if a power right had priority, it 'would mean that there must"

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be a continuous discharge of the roseryoir throughout the year.

If the agriculture has priority th0n the reservoir neod'notbe

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