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Issues that have arisen with compacts <br />• May not contain provisions to provide flexible and <br />practical methods of administration with the necessity <br />of advancing age <br />• Many compacts were established following the passage <br />of several Federal Acts to address reduced water supply <br />from irrigation development. Irrigated acreage has <br />peaked and continues to decline as other water <br />development occurs and conversion of agricultural water <br />is converted to other uses (MEtI, augmentation, energy). <br />Therefore, provisions of compacts may not fully address <br />the change in type, duration, frequency of use and value <br />of new uses. For example, navigation was an original <br />use and a ferry was actually used on the Lower Colorado <br />at one time. <br />COLORADO <br />• Division of Water Resources <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />