Upper Colorado River Basin Compact (Utah Code: Title 73 Water and Irrigation; Chapter 13)

This chapter of the Utah Code adopts the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact entered into among the states of Arizona, the State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, the State of Utah and the State of Wyoming. It provides that 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, the use of which was apportioned in perpetuity to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River Compact; to establish the obligations of each state of the Upper Division with respect to the deliveries of water required to be made at Lee Ferry by the Colorado River Compact; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Upper Basin, the storage of water and to protect life and property from floods. It is recognized that the Colorado River Compact is in full force and effect and all of the provisions hereof are subject thereto.