The Winslow mail., 1924-03-21
Article III
Is used in this compact :

AS used in this compact:
(a) The term Colorado River
System means that portion of the
Colorado river and it's tributaries
within the United States of America.
CD The term 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 benefcially applied
(c) The term Estates of the Up
per Division" means the states of
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and
Wyoming.
(d) The term States of the
Lower Division means the States of
Arizona, California and Nevada.
(e) The term Lee Ferry" means
point in the main stream of the
Colorado river one mile below the
mouth of the Paria river.
f) The term Upper Basin"
means those parts Of the states of
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico Utah
and Wyoming within and from which
waters naturally drain into the Colo
rado River System above Lee Ferry,
and also all parts of said states locat-
ed without the drainage area of the
Colorado River System which are now
or shall hereafter be benefcially SER
we'd by waters diverted from the Sys-
tenn above Lee Ferry.
(g) The term 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 sta
tes located without the drainage area
of the Colorado River System which
are now Or shall hereafter be bene-
fcially served by waters diverted
from the System below Lee Ferry
h)> The term domestic use" shall
include the use of water for house
hold, stock, municipal, mining, mill
poses, but shall exclude the genera
tion of electric power.
Article Ill
(a) There is hereby apportioned
from the Colorado River System in
perpetuity to the Upper Basin and
to the Lower Basin respectively the
exclusive beneficial consumptive use
of 100000 acre feet of water per
annum, which shall include all water
necessary for the supply of any rights
which may now exist.
(b) In addition to the apportion-
ment in paragraph (a), the Lower
Basin is hereby given the right to
increase it's beneficial consumptive
use of such waters by one million
acre feet per annum.
(c) II, as a matter Of information
al comfy, the United States Of Amer
lea shall hereafter recognize in the
United States of Mexico any right to
the use of any waters of the Colorado
River System, such water shall be
supplied first from the waters which
are surplus over and above the ag-
gregate of the quantities specified
in paragraph (a) and (b); and if such
surplus shall prove insufficient for
this purpose, then, the burden of such
deficiency shall be equally borne by
the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin
and whenever necessary the states of
the Upper Division shall deliver at
Lee Ferry water to supply one-half
of the deficiency SO recognized in ad-
dition to that provided in paragraph
(d.
(d) The states of the Upper Di-
vision will not cause the flow of the
river at Lee Ferry to be depleted be-
low an aggregate of 75,0O0,O0O acre
feet for any period of ten consecutive
years reckoned in continuing prog
ressive series beginning with the first
day of October next succeeding the
ratification of this compact.
(e) The states of the Upper Divi-
sion shall not withhold water, and
the states of the Lower Division shall
not require the delivery of water,
which cannot reasonably be applied