Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin, Parts 1-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) |
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... matter I desire to obtain the benefit of the advice of some especially qualified men who can review and collate the data already gathered and furnish in abstract form the net results of investi- gations and their views and ...
... matter I desire to obtain the benefit of the advice of some especially qualified men who can review and collate the data already gathered and furnish in abstract form the net results of investi- gations and their views and ...
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... matter of fact , the Colorado River did run in there and this country was all a lake , then the question of silt and the amount of silt coming down the river would be almost uncontrollable . Mr. SWING . The conclusion of all the men who ...
... matter of fact , the Colorado River did run in there and this country was all a lake , then the question of silt and the amount of silt coming down the river would be almost uncontrollable . Mr. SWING . The conclusion of all the men who ...
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... matter for engineers to figure and calculate . Mr. LEATHERWOOD . What is the normal flow through that depres- sion ? Mr. SWING . I do not know . I do know this : That there is a de- finite length of time at the end of which it will fill ...
... matter for engineers to figure and calculate . Mr. LEATHERWOOD . What is the normal flow through that depres- sion ? Mr. SWING . I do not know . I do know this : That there is a de- finite length of time at the end of which it will fill ...
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... matter that had just as well be disposed of here as elsewhere : In writing this bill , I first undertook to draw a reservation pro- tecting the rights of the upper stream States substantially as agreed to in the Colorado River compact ...
... matter that had just as well be disposed of here as elsewhere : In writing this bill , I first undertook to draw a reservation pro- tecting the rights of the upper stream States substantially as agreed to in the Colorado River compact ...
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... matter , and administrative regulations will be worked out . Mr. RAKER . Well , will there be anyone who will present that to the committee ? Mr. SWING . It contains quite a bit of machinery for undertaking to carry out its provisions ...
... matter , and administrative regulations will be worked out . Mr. RAKER . Well , will there be anyone who will present that to the committee ? Mr. SWING . It contains quite a bit of machinery for undertaking to carry out its provisions ...
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Page 38 - lower basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River system below Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River system which are now or shall herenfter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system below Lee Ferry. i In The term "domestic use...
Page 38 - The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable 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 promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; and to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters and the protection of life and property from floods.
Page 48 - If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of the Colorado River System, such waters shall be supplied first from...
Page 298 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 47 - Colorado River Basin" means all of the drainage area of the Colorado River System and all other territory within the United States of America to which the waters of the Colorado River System shall be beneficially applied. (c) The term "States of the Upper Division" means the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
Page 50 - This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States.
Page 42 - Basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River system above Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River system which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system above Lee Ferry. (g) The term "Lower Basin...
Page 44 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Commissioners have signed this compact in a single original, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States...
Page 47 - ... to promote interstate comity ; to remove causes of present and future controversies and to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters, and the protection of life and property from floods. To these ends the Colorado River Basin is divided into two basins, and an apportionment of the use of part of the water of the Colorado River system is made to each of them with the provision that further equitable apportionments may...
Page 28 - States or under its authority, or not, and shall be deemed to be for the benefit of and be available to the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and the users of water therein or thereunder, by way of suit, defense, or otherwise, in any litigation respecting the waters of the Colorado River or its tributaries.