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Show Resolution on Filling of Glen Canyon Reservoir Adopted by the Upper Colorado River Commission, September 21, 1959 BE IT RESOLVED by the Upper Colorado River Commission that: 1. The Colorado River Compact provides the sole and a completely adequate basis for the filling of Glen Canyon Reservoir. The statements hereinafter contained are based upon the provisions of that compact and establish the criteria to be followed in the filling of Glen Canyon Reservoir. Only through proper filling of Glen Canyon Reservoir can the states of the Upper Basin be assured of full devolpment of the waters apportioned to them. 2. As used in this resolution, the terms 'Colorado River System', 'states of the upper division', 'states of the lower division', 'upper basin', 'lower basin', 'domestic use', and 'Lee Ferry', are as defined in Article II of the Colorado River Compact of 1922. 3. Glen Canyon Reservoir must be filled to accomplish the following purposes: (a) To provide the means through which the states of the upper division can reasonably apply all of the water apportioned to them, exclusively and in perpetuity by the Colorado River Compact to beneficial consumptive uses. (b) To enable the states of the upper division to fulfill any obligation to deliver water at Lee Ferry that is required under the Colorado River Compact. 4. The use of Glen Canyon reservoir water for domestic and agricultural purposes in the Upper Basin is accomplished by upstream diversions accompanied by corresponding releases from said reservoir, a practice known in the appropriation states as the 'doctrine of exchange'. 5. The states of the upper division have the right to have impounded in Glen Canyon Reservoir all the waters of the Colorado River flowing into it, except waters required by the Colorado River Compact to pass Lee Ferry. It is the right and duty of the Upper Colorado River Commission to insist that the agencies of the United States which perform the ministerial duty of administration of Glen Canyon Reservoir should fill it to capacity as expeditiously as the flow of the river will permit without infringement on the rights of upstream or downstream users as recognized or established by the Colorado River Compact. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Commission's engineering and legal staffs are hereby directed to continue the accumu-altion and collation of engineering data and documentary evidence to support this position and to make this policy effective. 22 |
