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

Para,graph 9 roads as follows; "A ,technical commission shall

bo established vn1ioh shall oontinuously c9110et data upon water

consumption, water flow, etc.", I might m<imtion that ,pa,ragraph'

contains no oxplanatio~ of tho machinory. I think it might bo,

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dosirablo t9 have some little discussion of this ma,chinory sO

that the drafting committoo may h,:we some instructions on this

point. So far as tho f)ection itsolf is concorned, ,it is "imply
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an indication that ,s omo thing of this kind will have to be creat'o'd.

I suggest that sueh oommissj,on, -:: let us :change the word "commission"

to "commi ttoe",,- 'shoulli be comprisod of tho state onginoors,' or of

tho stato vro,ter co~nissionors7 togothor with tho Director of the

Recla,mation Gervico or hisdelegato,and that it should bo tho

function ,of tha,t committeo :to socuro gaugings a,t1oc's Forry and

to colla to and prepare d~ ta annually for, tho ins truotion ofiho

various states on tho teohnical phases o~ dovolopmont of tho basin.

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Ifill.' CARPENTER, Your theory being,:! t,ako it, that through

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this instrumontality the states would procood in units and thon

tho units, collaborate for ,tho oompilation of tho final data?
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1m. HOOVER; Yos, oach unit would eollaboratoin ordor to

make tho data systomaticand comprohensivo.

ljR. jjJU:rmSON; I vlould, suggost tho 1Jnited states Goological

SurvQy'in placo of the Roola,mation Sorv~coas ,that bureau is mor,o

concorned with the measurement of wator.

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llR. HOOVER, On tho other hand, thero is a great deal of

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data in connection with conSumption and ,othor matters of importance

tha,t is Ylithin tho 'purview of the Roclama tior) Sorvico.

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