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Show UPPER COLORADO RWER COMPACT 34r9 (g) OEn order to measure the flow of water diverted, each State shall cause suitable measuring devices to be constructed, maintained and operated at or near the point of diversion into each ditch. (h) The State Engineers of the two States jointly shall appoint a Special Water Commissioner who shall have authority to administer the water in both States in accordance with the terms of this Article. The salary and expenses of such Special Water Commissioner shall "be paid, thirty percent by the State of Utah and seventy percent by the State of Wyoming. article xni Subject to the provisions of this Compact, the rights to the con- sumptive use of the water of the Yampa River, a tributary entering the Green River in the State of Colorado, are hereby apportioned between the States of Colorado and Utah in accordance with the following principles: (a) The State of Colorado will not cause the flow of the Yampa River at the Maybell Gaging Station to be depleted below an aggre- gate of 5,000,000 acre-feet for any period of ten consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day of October next succeeding the ratification and approval of this Com- pact. In the event any diversion is made from the Yampa River or from tributaries entering the Yampa River above the Maybell Gag- ing Station for the benefit of any water use project in the State of Utah, then the gross amount of all such diversions for use in the State of Utah, less any returns from such diversions to the River above May- bell, shall be added to the actual flow at the Maybell Gaging Station to determine the total flow at the Maybell Gaging Station. (b) All consumptive use of the waters of the Yampa River and its tributaries shall be charged under the apportionment of Article III hereof to the State in which the use is made; provided, that con- sumptive use incident to the diversion, impounding or conveyance of water in one State for use in the other shall be charged to the latter State. ARTICLE XIV Subject to the provisions of this Compact, the consumptive use of the waters of the San Juan River and its tributaries is hereby appor- tioned between the States of Colorado and New Mexico as follows: The State of Colorado agrees to deliver to the State of New Mexico from the San Juan River and its tributaries which rise in the State of Colorado a quantity of water which shall be sufficient, together with water originating in the San Juan Basin in the State of New Mexico, to enable the State of New Mexico to make full use of the water appor- tioned to the State of New Mexico by Article III of this Compact, subject, however, to the following: (a) A first and prior right shall be recognized as to: (1) All uses of water made in either State at the time of the sign- ing of this Compact; and (2) All uses of water contemplated by projects authorized, at the time of the signing of this Compact, under the laws of the United |
