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Show CANADIAN RIVER COMPACT 47 tion over local necessities, if any, to be determined and fixed by the Commissions in charge and, if accepted, such extra cost shall be as- sumed by such lower district; and each signatory State shall provide right-of-way within its boundaries, and exercise right of eminent domain within its boundaries, for the acquisition of right-of-way nec- essary to carry waters from reservoirs or canals within its boundaries to the border of the lower state, or states requesting such exercise. "(d) Further equitable apportionment of the beneficial use of the waters of the said Canadian River System, if it shall appear that flow apportionment is not hereby equitably made, may be made by the joint action of the Commissions from the Signatory States at any time after five years from the completion of the control works of said river, if, as, and when, the effect of said works shall be established by five years' experience. "article iv " (a) Subject to the provision of this compact, water of the Canadian River System may be impounded and used for the generation of elec- trical power, but such impounding and use shall be subservient to the use and consumption of sueh water for agricultural purposes, and shall not interfere with or prevent the use for such dominant purposes. " (b) The provisions of this Article shall not apply to, or interfere with, the regulation and control by any state, within its boundaries, of the appropriation, use and distribution of impounded water allotted to ancl apportioned hereunder to such state. 'ARTICLE V "(a) To accomplish the purposes herein expressed, the Signatory States agree that there shall be constructed in the Canadian River Sys- tem, at sites to be selected on the main stem of the Canadian River, and on TTte Creek and on Pajarita Creek, within the State of New Mexico, reservoirs and control works, all of detail, specifications, design and construction satisfactory to the Commissions of the Signatory States, of such aggregate capacity to hold in reserve at all times sufficient of the waters of said stream system to adequately irrigate and reclaim the irrigable lands in the Signatory States subject to irrigation not exceed- ing 850,000 acre feet of water; and such additional capacity for flood restraint as may, by the Commissions of the lower states, be deemed adequate to restrain and control the flood flow of said stream system, to accomplish the purposes of the lower sections, herein expressed. " (b) The provisions for the control of said Canadian River System herein expressed, shall not be exclusive, but other reservoirs may be constructed at other places, if, in the judgment of the Commissions of the several signatory states, the same are deemed necessary. "(c) The plan for the control and administration of the Canadian River System outlined in this compact, with such modifications and amendments as may be hereafter adopted and approved by the Com- missions of the Signatory States, is hereby approved by the Legisla- tures of the Signatory States as a plan for controlling waters of the Canadian River System, and for the improvement of said Canadian River System and its tributaries, and for the benefit, improvement, reclamation and protection of lands in said River Basin that are sus- |
