Colorado River Research Chronology

1854

• Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers: accompanied by maps, sketches, views, and illustrations (Sitegreaves)

1868

• Treaty Between the United States of America and the Navajo Tribe of Indians (navajo-nsn.gov)

1887

• Indian General Allotment Act, aka Dawes Act (National Archives)

1891

• The General Revision and Forest Reserve Act of 1891

1899

• United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co., 174 U.S. 690 (Justia)

1900

• The Conquest of Arid America (Smythe)

1902

• Kansas v Colorado (Justia)

• Reclamation Act

1905

• United States v. Winans (University of Tulsa)

• United_States v. Winans (PDF)

• Profile of the Colorado River from the Dolores River to the Gulf of California Showing All Known Dam Sites

1908

• Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (Justia)

1916

• Colorado River and Its Utilization

1920

• Federal Power Water Act

• Kinkaid Act On Imperial Valley

1922

• Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity (aka Fall-Davis Report)

• Wyoming v Colorado (Justia)

• Jun 20 - Flood Regulation on the Colorado River as Affected by the Existing and Proposed Works on the Gila River and its Tributaries

• Colorado River Compact

• Colorado River Commission Minutes

• Colorado River relation of estimated irrigation development to water supply, 1878-1922 (Stabler, ASU)

• Report of Delph E. Carpenter Commissioner for the State of Colorado In Re Colorado River Compact(Carpenter)

1923

• Transcript of excerpt from testimony of William Mulholland before Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, House of Representatives (ASU)

• Speech of Hon. Chas. H. Rutherford on the Colorado River Compact, Arizona State Senate (ASU)

• Speech and replies of Hon. Fred T. Colter(AZ) on the Colorado River Compact, Arizona State Senate (ASU)

• Arizona Governor Hunt's message on the Colorado River compact, and certified copy of the Colorado River compact

• Why I oppose the Colorado River Compact / by George W. P. Hunt, Governor of Arizona (ASU)

• Sep 24 - Statement before the Federal Power Commission by the Arizona Colorado River Conference Committee Concerning the Development and Utilization of the Resources of the Colorado River

• The Colorado River compact without reservations, interpretations or amendments (Winsor)

• AZ Senate Bill 136 Ratifying the Colorado Compact

1924

• Jan 10 - Colorado River Development Letter from Governor Hunt to H. B. Hovland

• Report on the Problems of the Colorado Basin, aka Weymouth Report (Print version in Library of Congress, Similar to Fall-Davis but more detailed per Eric Kuhn)

1925

• Gov. Hunt Speech, Arizona's Viewpoint on the Colorado River (azlibrary.gov)

• AZ Senate Resolution 8 proposing ratification of the Colorado Compact (azlibrary.gov)

• Map of Colorado River Drainage Basin Below Greem River, Utah Showing undeveloped water-power sites and flood-control reservoir sites

1926

• Sen. Cameron(AZ) All-gravity American Colorado River constructive plan (ASU)

• Statement for upper Colorado River states regarding bill for Boulder Canon [i.e. Canyon] Dam, Swing-Johnson Bill, Delph Carpenter (ASU)

• Speeches of Hon. Carl Hayden of Arizona : the Colorado River problem, the San Carlos Project, and the Colorado River Compact (ASU)

1927

• The Swing-Johnson Bill, Bannister Reply to Sen. Phipps

• Conference of Governors, Commissioners and Advisors of the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming on the Colorado River in Denver (ASU)

• Feb 19 - Minority report committee appointed in accordance to Arizona Senate Bill no. 6 to oppose the passage of the Swing-Johnson Bill

• May 31 - Why you should vote "Yes" on Propositions 100 and 102, Arizona

• Oct 27 - Report of the Colorado River Commission of Arizona 1927

1928

• Jan - Colorado River Basin, Senate Hearing S.728 and S.1274

• Jan 31 - Gov Hunt, Colorado River and the Swing-Johnson Boulder Canyon Dam bill (ASU)

• Mar 20 - Boulder Canyon Project Report, Accompanying S.728

• Mar 26 - Carl Hayden to George H. Dern re: Reconvene Seven States governors at Denver (ASU)

• Apr - Denver Water's Bannister on Colorado River Problem

• Apr 24 - Boulder Canyon, House Rules Hearing

• Sep 24 - Report of Colorado River Board on the Boulder Canyon Project to the Secretary of the Interior (ASU)

• Sep 26 - Carl Hayden to the governors of the states of the Upper Basin of the Colorado River (ASU)

• Nov 24 - Report of Colorado River Board on the Boulder Canyon Project to the Secretary of the Interior (ASU)

• Dec 3 - Colorado River Board Siebert

• Dec 10 - Colorado River Development (Senate)

• Dec 11 - Boulder Canyon Debate transcript

• Dec 21 - Boulder Canyon Project Act

• Dec 22 - Carl Hayden to Hon. A. H. Favour re: Boulder Canyon Dam Act Passage (ASU)

• Dec 31 - Second Report of the Colorado River Commission of Arizona

• The Colorado River Question - Shall Natural Resources Create Local or Enlarge Distant Development?

1929

• Mar 4 - California Limitation Act

• Aug 1 - Explanation of terms in the Colorado River controversy between Arizona and California (Ward)

• Aug 16 - Arizona's Rights in the Colorado River - Proposals of Arizona and the Counter Proposals of California Submitted to the Tri-State Conference (Favour)

1930

• William D. Mitchell, Department of Justice, to Carl T. Hayden re: Hydroelectric power contracts (ASU)

• Colorado River Development and Related Problems (Dykstra, jstor)

• Major Engineering Problems, Colorado River Development (Weymouth, jstor)

1931

• Aug 18 - Seven Party Agreement

• State of Arizon v State of California et al

• Nov 11 - Memorandum from Thomas Maddock to Governor Hunt, Mr. Wood, and Mr. Pattee re: Colorado River and Boulder Dam

1933

• The Hoover Dam Documents, Wilbur & Ely (No electronic version found)

1935

• Statements from Lower Basin to L. Ward Bannister (Denver Water)

• S 2811 : an act to authorize and adopt certain public works projects for controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of certain streams of the United States, and for other purposes (ASU)

1937

• Senate Document 80, Colorado Big Thompson

1938

• Waters of the Colorado, Partial (Tipton)

1939

• Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (USBR)

• Arizona v California (Brandeis)

1940

• Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment_Act

• Forecast of inflow of Colorado River into Lake Mead at Boulder Dam, 1939 (Debler AGU$$)

1942

• Memoranda on Behalf of the Committee of the Fourteen on Apportionment

1943

• April - Committee of Fourteen, Santa Fe

• Nov 13 - Letter, Mexican water treaty : Cordell Hull to Carl T. Hayden

1944

• Jan 7 - The Matropolitann Water District, Repayment Contracts, Boulder Canyon Project

• Feb 9 - Boulder Canyon Project contract for delivery of water to Arizona

• Mar 16 - Letter, Mexican water treaty : Sidney P. Osborn to Franklin D. Roosevelt (ASU)

• Mar 25 - Water Treaty Between the United States and Mexico, Charles Timm

• March - Memorandum on Proposed Treaty With Mexico, Royce Tipton (26 MB)

• March - Memorandum on Proposed Treaty With Mexico Supplement, Royce Tipton

• Apr 3 - The Secretary of State to President Roosevelt (State Dept)

• Apr 5 - Letter to Cordell Hull by Charles A. Carson 1944, Why Arizona Wants Mexico Treaty

• May 15 - The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Interior, Ickes (State Dept)

• Jun 7 - The Secretary of the Interior (Ickes) to President Roosevelt (State Dept)

• Jul 17 - The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Interior, Ickes (State Dept)

• Aug 14 - The Secretary of the Interior (Ickes) to the Secretary of State (State Dept)

• Aug 29 - Six States Committee supporting ratification of the proposed treaty between the United States and Mexico

• Sep 14 - Memorandum on 1929 Pan American Treaty, Jean Breitenstein

• Sep 20 - Memorandum Concerning Proposed Treaty Between U.S. and Mexico, Jean Breitenstein

• Feb 3 & Nov 14 - Treaty Series 994, Utilization Of Waters Of The Colorado And Tijuana Rivers And Of The Rio Grande, Treaty Between THE United States of America and Mexico

• Nov 15 - The Pending Mexican Treaty, A Sound Solution to a Difficult Problem

1945

• Mar 5 - George Smith Letter To Reclamation

• Mar 17 - Herbert Hoover Letter on Mexico Treaty

• Apr 20 - Translations of Statements Released by the Mexican Government Relative to the Water Treaty Between the United States and Mexico (ASU)

1946

• Light on the Mexican Water Treaty, Ely

• The Colorado River (A Natural Menace Becomes a National Resource)

• Colorado Comments on Colorado River Report

1947

• Bridge Canyon Project, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of Irrigation and Reclamation on S. 1175

• S 1175 : a bill authorizing the construction, operation, and maintenance of a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Bridge Canyon, together with certain appurtenant dams and canals, and for other purposes (ASU)

1948

• The Hoover Dam Documents, Wilbur & Ely

• Colorado River Water Rights, Senate Hearing

• Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Commission - Volume 1 - Meetings 1-5

• Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Commission - Volume 2 - Meetings 6-11

• Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Commission - Volume 3 - Engineering

• Upper Colorado River Basin Compact

1949

• March-May - Central Arizona Project and Colorado River Water Rights S.75

• March-May - Central Arizona Project, House Hearing H.R. 934 and 935

• March - The Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Hearings

• Bridge Canyon Project Report (ASU)

1950

• Hoover Dam Power and Water Contracts, Wilbur & Ely

• Interim Report on Reconnaissance (USBR)

• California and the Colorado River (Desky)

1951

• Jan 21 - Colorado River Basin States Committee Proceedings

• Feb 16 - Interstate Water Compacts and Their Relation to Basin Developmenat, Royce Tipton

• Mar 13 - Interstate Water Compacts, Clifford Stone

• April, Public Comments on CRSP (CWCB)

• May 29 - Congressional Record, CAP Authorization, S.75 on page 5917

• May 31 - Congressional Record, CAP Authorization, S.75 on page 5974

• Mar 12 - Bridge Canyon Project Report (ASU)

1952

• Colorado River Basin States Committee

• Report of Policy and Review Committee Gunnison River Storage (CWCB)

• South San Juan Project (USBR)

• Short bio of Clifford Stone, CWCB Director and Chair of Seven States Committee

• McCarran Amendment, Suits for adjudication of water rights 66 Stat. 650. 43 U.S. Code 666 (Cornell)

1953

• Memorandum Supplement to Water Supply of the Lower Colorado River Basin Project Planning Report November 1952

• Fryingpan-Arkansas Project

• Curecanti Report, Colorado Water Supply

• Supplemental Report On Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects

• Northern Water Legal Matters

1954

• Brief of the State of Colorado and the State of Wyoming opposing the motion of the State of California to join the states of Colorado and Wyoming as parties to this action (CU Law)

• Reasonable Use by Reasonable Men, Policy and Legal Aspects in the Solution of California's Water Problem (Kennedy)

• Colorado's Water Future (Breitenstein)

• Colorado River Storage Project Senate Subcommittee S.500

• Colorado River Storage Project House Subcommittee H.R.4449, H.R.4443, H.R.4463

• Colorado River Storage Project Amendments

• Colorado River Storage Project: Letter from Assistant Secretary of the Interior Transmitting a Report on the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects

• Central Arizona Project Association Press Release

• Address by Secretary of Interior McKay

• Dolores Project Status Report (USBR, Partial)

• Nov - Report on the Colorado reach, Parker, Palo Verde, & Cibola Valleys of the Colorado River

1955

• Report on Depletion of Surface Water Supplies of Colorado West of Contindental_Divide, aka The Hill Report (Anderson, CWCB)

• Colorado Storage Project - House Insular Affairs H.R. 270, H.R. 2836, H.R. 3382, H.R. 3384, H.R. 4488

• Colorado Storage Project - Senate Subcommittee Hearing, S.500

• Water Supply of the Western Slope of Colorado (Crawford)

1956

• Jan 6 - Western Slope Surface Water Study_(Crawford CWCB)

• Mar 8 - Bridge Canyon and Upper Basin Project bill : Ernest W. McFarland to John J. Rhodes (ASU)

• Apr 11 - Colorado Storage Project Act

• Jul 29 - Anonymous Letter To George Smith

• Dec 29 - Arizona Loses a Water Supply - George E.P. Smith

• Oct 3 - Report of Hearings before the Special Master in the Colorado River case of Arizona vs. California, et al.

1957

• The Birth of Colorado Big-Thompson (Kelley)

• Colorado's Water Resources (CWCB)

• 1957 trial sessions in Arizona vs. California, et al.

1958

• Financial and Economic Analysis Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects

• Financial and Economic Analysis Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects 2

1959

• Report of the San Juan Engineering Committee

1960

• Arizona v California Special Master Rifkind Report

• San Juan-Chama Reclamantion Project and Navajo Indian Irrigation Project H.R. 2352, H.R. 2494, S.72

• Federal Water Rights Legislation, Three Papers

1961

• California's Stake in the Colorado River

• Limitations on Upper Basin Developments_Due to Shortage of Colorado River Supply aka The Hill Report

1962

• Department of the Interior in the matter of Secretary's Conference re: Mexican water Treaty (Salinity Crisis)

• Appendix E - Water Supply (Origin unclear)

• San Juan Chama Project

1963

• Secretary Udall announces study for regional solution of water and power problems of Pacific Southwest (ASU)

• Arizona v California Decision (Justia) (Justia)

• Arizona v California (CaseLaw)

• Arizona v California, Douglas Dissenting Opinion

• Arizona v California, Exceptions To Special Master's Report amd Recommended Decree

• Arizona v California, Agreed Provisions for Proposed Final Decree

• Arizona v California, Proposed Decree Imperial

• Arizona v California, Supplement and Amendment Imperial

• Arizona v California, Proposal for Decree, Arizona

• Arizona v California, Statement on Decree, Arizona

• Arizona v California, Proposals for Decree, California

• Arizona v California, Petition For Rehearhing California

• Arizona v California, Petition For Rehearhing Imperial

• Arizona v California, Petition For Rehearhing Metropolitan

• Arizona v California, Deny Petition For Rehearhing

• S 1658 : a bill to authorize, construct, operate, and maintain the Central Arizona Project, Arizona-New Mexico, and for other purposes (ASU)

• Supplemental report, Central Arizona Project, project development report (ASU)

• The Quiet Crisis (Stewart Udall, Amazon)

• Pacific Southwest Water Plan

• CRSP Annual Report, Fill Operating Criteria

1964

• Arizona v California Decree - March 9, 1964

• The Colorado Waters Dispute, Hundley

• History of United States-Mexican negotiations relative to the Colorado River (University of Arizona)

• S 2760 : a bill to authorize the coordinated development of the water resources of the Pacific Southwest, and for other purposes (ASU)

• HYD-468

• HYD-469

1965

• Water Supplies of the Colorado River (Royce Tipton)

• Water Resources of the Upper Colorado Basin by USGS

• Water Runoff and Stream Depletion of the Mainstem Colorado River Basin in Colorado (CWCB, Jex)

• Lower Colorado River Basin Project H.R. 4671

• Newspaper clippings on CAP and Water Availability Controversy

• S 1019 : a bill to authorize the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Lower Colorado River Basin Project, and for other purposes (ASU)

• S 75 : a bill to authorize the construction, operation and maintenance of the Lower Colorado River Basin Project, and for other purposes (ASU)

• S. 75 [Report No. 832] (ASU)

• Central Utah Project Ultimate Phase: Inventory of Available Data

1966

• The Colorado River (Meyers)

• Summary of Potential Water Resource Developments in the Upper Colorado River Basin of Colorado, USBR

• Colorado River District Motion on Colorado Basin Project Act

• Central Arizona Project alternatives: an analysis prepared by Lawrence Mehren (ASU)

• Lower Colorado River Basin Project H.R. 4671

• Colorado River Depletions Chargeable_to_Colorado

• Upper Basin Depletions and Projects 1965 Estimated

1967

• May - Central Arizona Project_Hearing S.1004

• Jun 30 - Arizona Interstate Stream Commission 20th Annual Report, Very good chronology

• Colorado River Basin Project H.R. 3300, S.20 (981 pages)

• Colorado River Basin Project H.R. 3300, S.20 (704 pages)

• S 1004 : a bill to authorize the construction, operation and maintenance of the Central Arizona Project, Arizona-New Mexico, and for other purposes (ASU)

• S 1013 : a bill to authorize the construction, operation and maintenance of the Central Arizona Project (ASU)

• The Colorado River: The Treaty With Mexico (Meyers & Noble, jstor)

• The Politics of Water and Geography: California and the Mexican-American Treaty of 1944 (Hundley $jstor))

• California Colorado River Board Report, Has Lower Basin Present Perfected Claim Filing

1968

• San Miguel WCD News on CRBPA Politics

• Colorado River Basin Project Report with Dissenting Views

• Jan/Feb - Colorado River Basin Project Part II Hearings

• April 24 - Colorado River Basin Project : report together with separate and dissenting views, to accompany H.R. 3300 (ASU)

• May 15 - CRBPA Committee Hearing

• May 16 - CRBPA House

• June/July - Preference between language of H.R. 3300 and S. 1004 (ASU)

• Sept 30 - Colorado River Basin Project Act

• Sept 30 - Coordinated Long Range Operating Criteria

1969

• The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended

1970

• Coordinated Long Range Operating Criteria 1970

• Glen Canyon Dam Technical Data

• The Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970

1971

• Upper Colorado Region Comprehensive Framework study : Main report

• Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive Framework Study : Main Report

• Patterns of Politics in Water Resources Development, Ingram

1972

• The Mexican Water Treaty and Its Relationship to Colorado River Water Supplies, Holburt

• Clio Nods: Arizona v. California and the Boulder Canyon Act - A Reassessment (Hundley)

1973

• Water Policies for the Future (National Water Commission)

• Minute 242 - Permanent and Defininitve Solution to the International Problem of the Salinity of the Colorado River

1974

• Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act

• Legal-Political History of Water Resource Development in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Dean Mann

• United States of America v Mary Akin 504 F.2d 115, 10th Circuit (Justia)

1975

• Westside Study

• California Undersea Aqueduct Reconnaissance

• The Colorado River Salinity Problem With Mexico, Brownell & Eaton (jstor)

• International Problems of the Colorado River, Holburt (jstor)

1976

• Central Arizona Project Allocation of Project Water for Indian Use

• Colorado River Water Conservation District v US, 424 U.S. 800 (FindLaw)

• Colorado River Water Conservation District v US, 424 U.S. 800 (Justia)

1977

• Colorado_River System_Consumptive_Use_and_Losses Report 1971-1975

• Answer of Intervening Defendant, The Navajo Nation

1978

• Updating the Hoover Dam Documents

• United States v New Mexico 438 U.S. 696

• State Jurisdiction to Adjudicate Indian Reserved Water Rights (UNM)

1979

• Arizona v California Supplemental Decree

• Arizona v. California, 439 U.S. 419

• Animas La Plata Draft EIS

• Bryant v. Yellen, 447 U.S. 352 (Justia)

1981

• Colorado_River System_Consumptive_Use_and_Losses 1976-1980

1982

• Arizona v California Tuttle Special Master Report

• Reclamation Reform Act 97-293

• Oct 12 - Tohono O'odham Water Rights Settlement Act of 1982, Title III

1983

• Mar 24 - Central Arizona Prohect, Water Allocations and Water Service Contracting (Federal Register)

• Mar 30 - Arizona v California Second Supplemental Decree (Find Law)

• Arizona v. California, 460 U.S. 605 (1983)

1984

• Metropolitan on Galloway Group Sale to San Diego

• Ak-Chin Settlement Act of 1984 Pub. L. 98-530, 98 Stat. 2698

• June - Imperial Irrigation District Alleged Waste and Unreasonable Use of Water, Water Rights Decision 1600 (CA Water Resources Control Board)

1985

• The Galloway Project and the Colorado River Compacts: Will the Compacts Bar Tansbasin Water Diversions, Gross

1986

• Contrary Views of the Law of the Colorado River: An Examination of Rivalries Between Upper and Lower Basins

• Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Final Settlement Agreement of Dec. 19, 1986

• The West Against Itself: The Colorado River-An Institutional History by Hundley

1987

• Federal-State Conflicts over the Colorado River (Kaplan)

• H.R. 2642 Animas-La Plata Water Rights Settlement House Insular Affairs

• Transmountain Diversions in Colorado, Lochhead

1988

• Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement_Act

• Hydrological Determination

• California Colorado River Issues (Abbott)

• Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Water Rights Settlement

• Imperial Irrigation District Order to Submit Plan and Implementation Schedule for Conservation Measures (CA State Water Resources Board Water Rights Order 88-20)

• San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement P.L. 100-675

1989

• The Colorado River Compact: A Breeding Ground for International, National and Interstate Controversies

• The Salton Sea, I.I.D., and the Public Trust: Some Implications of Water Transfers From the Imperial Valley (Pollak)

1990

• Recommended Determination to Prohibit Construction of Two Forks Dam and Reservoir Pursuant to Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act

• Imperial Irrigation Dist. v. State Water Resources Control Board (Justia)

1992

• Grand Canyon Protection Act HR 814

• P.L 102-575 Grand Canyon Protection Act, Ute Settlement

• Jicarilla Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 1992

• Contract Between the United States and theJicarilla Apache Tribe

• The Last Water Hole in the West: The Colorado-Big Thompson Project and the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District (Tyler, Amazon)

1993

• SNWA Chevron Roan Creek Water Lease in Colorado Newspaper Articles 1

• SNWA Chevron Roan Creek Water Lease in Colorado Newspaper Articles 2

• Western States Water Newsletter on SNWA Chevron Roan Creek Water Lease p 11, 13

• Cadillac Desert (Reisner, Amazon)

• Central Arizona Project Water Allocations (Federal Regisiter rescinded)

1994

• Water Banks in the West(MacDonnell)

1995

• The Law of the Colorado River: Coping with Severe Sustained Drought (MacDonnell, Getches)

• John Wesley Powell's Exploration of the Colorado River (Rabbitt)

1996

• Jicarilla Apache Water Rights Settlement ActAmendment of 1996

• Colorado Big Thompson Project (USBR)

1997

• Sharing Colorado River Water: History, Public Policy and the Colorado River Compact (University of Arizona)

• Colorado River Basin Study, Pontius Report

• The Dam that Wont Die, Animas La Plata (High Country News)

1998

• Jicarilla Apache Water Rights Settlement Act, Amendment of 1998

• City of Barsow v Mohave Water Agency (Findlaw)

1999

• Offstream Storage of Colorado River Water; Development and Release of Intentionally Created Unused Apportionment in the Lower Division States; Final Rule(USBR)

• Water Politics and the Arizona Dream, Carl Hayden and the Modern Origins of the Central Arizona Project 1922-1963 (August, jstor)

• Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest (August, Amazon)

• Two Rivers, Two Nations, One History: The Transformation of the Colorado River Delta (San Diego State)

• Arizona v California - Exception of the United States (justice.gov)

• Arizona v California - Exception of the United States brief (PDF, justice.gov)

• Oct 15 - Key Terms for Quantification Settlement

2000

• Arizona v. California 530 U.S. 392 (PDF)

• Arizona v California Supplemental Decree (justia)

• Arizona v California Supplemental Decree (leagle)

• Arizona v California Supplemental Decree (Cornell)

• Aug 8 - Colorado River Interim Surplus Criteria - Federal Register

• Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement_Act Amendment

• Historical Elevations of the Salton Sea 1904-1994

2001

• Jan 25 - Colorado River Interim Surplus Guidelines (Federal Register))

• An Upper Basin Perspective on California's Claims to Water from the Colorado River Part I: The Law of the River (Lochhead)

• Dec 27 - Final Administrative Determination of Appropriate and Equitable Shares of the Yuma Mesa Division's Colorado River Water Entitlement for the North Gila Valley Unit, the South Gila Valley Unit, and the Mesa Unit of the Gila Project in Arizona (USBR)

• Lee's Ferry, The Colorado River, and the Development of the Bureau of Reclamation, Kupel

• Metropolitan Water on Californias Colorado River Qater User Plan (aka QSA)

• Two Nations, One River: Managing Ecosystem Conservation in the Colorado River Delta (EDF, Pitt, Leucke)

2002

• Storage and Interstate Release Agreement

• Agreement for the Development of Intentionally Created Unused Apportionment

• Boulder Dam: Origins of Siting and Design (Jackson)

• Colorado River Interim Surplus Guidelines, Notice Regarding Implementation of Guidelines

• Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West (Schulte, Amazon)

2003

• Jan 1 - An Upper Basin Perspective on California's Claims to Water from the Colorado River Part II: The Development, Implementation and Collapse of California's Plan to Live within Its Basic Apportionment (Lochhead)

• Feb 28 - Imperial Irrigation District on Quantification Settlement Agreement(QSA)

• Jun 18 - Central Arizona Project, AZ; water allocations and service contracting (vlex.com)

• Jul 15 - Everyone Pays Price for Backroom Water Grab From Farmers (LA Times)

• Sep 30 - Arizona Water Settlements Act Joint Hearing S.437

• Oct 10 - Quantification Settlement Agreement

• Oct 10 - Quantification Settlement Agreement JPA Creation and Funding

• Oct 10 - Quantification Settlement Agreement (Wikipedia)

• Oct 20 - Colorado River Water Delivery Agreement

• Nov 26 - Animas-La Plata Project Construction Cost Estimate

2004

• Mar 24 - Investigation Into the Bureau of Reclamation's Animas-La Plata Project: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate (Requires Google Play)

• Mar 24 - Investigation Into the Bureau of Reclamation's Animas-La Plata Project: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations (Amazon)

• March - Adoption of an Interim 602(a) Storage Guideline Final Environmental Assessment

• May 19 - Notice of Adoption of an Interim 602(a) Storage Guideline for Management of the Colorado River (Federal Register)

• Jul 20 - CWCB Colorado River Workshop Handbook

• Oct 7 - Upper Basin Letters to Secretary Norton, Lower Basin on Relief for Lake Powell

• Oct 27 - Storage and Interstate Release Agreement (Contract No. 04-XX-30-W0430), 2004

• Nov 8 - Colorado River Compact Issues (Seaholm, CWCB)

• Dec 2 - Point Man on Western Water Is Stepping Down (LA Times)

• Dec 10 - Gila River Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act of 2004

• Dec 10 - Arizona Water Settlements Act, Public Law 108-451 108th Congress

2005

• Jan 21 - 7 Basin State Technical Workgroup Meeting Notes

• Mar/Apr - Upper Colorado River Basin Perspectives On the Drought, Southwest Hydrology (Ostler, University of Arizona)

• Apr 18 - Letter Upper Basin States to Secretary Norton

• May 2 - Letter Secretary Norton to Governor Huntsman

• May 16 - Colorado River Compact Issues (Seaholm, CWCB)

• Jun 8 - History of Colorado River Law, Development and Use: A Primer and Look Forward (Hobbs)

• Sep 6 - Colorado River Compact Issues, Early Alternatives Matrix and USBR Modelling (Seaholm, CWCB)

• The History of Large Federal Dams: Planning, Design and Construction

• Doctrinal Anachronism? Revisiting the Pracicably Irrigable Acreage Standard

2006

• Jan 16 - Colorado River Basin Issues (Seaholm, CWCB)

• Feb 6 - Seven States Letter, Development of Lower Basin Shortage Guidelines and Coordinated Management Strategies for Lake Mead and Lake Powell under Low Reservoir Conditions

• Feb 6 - Seven States Preliminary Proposal Regarding Colorado River Interim Guidelines

• Feb 6 - Seven States Draft Agreement

• March - Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead - Scoping Summary Report (USBR)

• Mar 13 - Water Supply Protection, Colorado River Discussions (Seaholm. CWCB)

• Jun 9 - UCRC Resolution on Availability of Water

• Aug 26 - Central Arizona Project Water Allocations

• Nov 3 -Colorado River Future Consumptive Use Projections (Seaholm, CWCB)

• Nov 15 - The Colorado River: New Operational Guidelines for Lake Powell and Lake Mead (Fulp, Water Report)

• Robert B Griffith Water Project, formerly Southern Nevada Water Project (Rogers, USBR)

2007

• From a Colorado River Compact Challenge to the Next Era of Cooperation Among Seven Basin States

• Jan - CWCB Staff Recommendation - Colorado River 7-state Agreement Approval

• April, Hydrological Determination (USBR)

• Apr 23, Seven States Agreement Concerning Colorado River Management and Operations

• Apr 30 - Basin States Comments on Interim Guidelines DEIS

• June - Colorado River Updates (Seaholm, CWCB)

• May 8 - The Colorado River, The Story of a Quest for Certainty on a Diminishing River

• June, Technical Evaluation of Options for the Long-Term Augmentation of the Colorado River System

• July 17 - Hobbs, Colorado River Compact Entitlements, Clearing up Misconceptions (U of Arizona)

• Dec 7 - UCRC Upper Colorado River Division States Current and Future Depletion Demand Schedule

• December, Record of Decision - Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and the Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead

• Dec 10 - Arizona Water Settlement Agreement

• Future Indian Water Settlements In Arizona: The Race To The Bottom Of The Waterhole? (Weldon, McKnight - Arizona Law Review)

2008

• CWCB AG, Defense of the Colorado River Subunit

• USRB Long Term Augmentation Report

• Ocean Route Imports

• An Analysis of the 1944 U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty: Its Past, Present, and Future (UC David, Umoff)

• Management Strategies for the Colorado River Reservoir System under Major Drought Scenarios (Frevert & Fulp et al, $$ ASCE Library

• Colorado River Water Use Since 1906 (USBR)

2009

• How low will it go? Colorado may face a dry and difficult future of fighting for water, Eagle River Litigation (High Country News)

• Navajo Nation Water Settlement & Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Acts of 2009

• Bureaucratic Politics, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Animals-La Plata Project

2010

• Rethinking the Future of the Colorado River

• Navajo Nation San Juan Basin in New Mexico Water Rights Settlement Agreement of 2010

2011

• The Colorado River and the Inevitability of Institutional Change (Kenney)

• United States' Statement of Claims of Water Rights in the New Mexico San Juan River Basin on Behalf of the Navajo Tribe

• Supplemental Partial Final Decree of the Water Rights of the Navajo Nation

2012

• Jan 2 - Risk Management Strategies for the Upper Colorado River Basin

• Apr - Does the Upper Basin have a Delivery Obligation or an Obligation Not to Deplete the Flow of the Colorado River at Lee Ferry?

• June - Colorado River Water Bank Feasibility Study Phase 1

• Fall - Arizona v. California Revisited

• Nov 11 - Equity and the Colorado River Compact (Robison, Kenney)

• Dec - USBR Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study

• What Seven States Can Agree to Do: Deal-Making on the Colorado River (Fleck)

• Colorado River Basin Consumptive Uses and Losses Report 2001-2005 (USBR)

2013

• Cross-Boundary Water Transfers in the Colorado River Basin: A Review of Efforts and Issues Associated with Marketing Water Across State Lines or Reservation Boundaries

• Water Transfers for a Changing Climate - Squillace (jstor)

• Simon Rifkind's great mistake and the shortfall on the Colorado River (Fleck)

• A Smashing Victory?: Was Arizona v. California a Victory for the State of Arizona? (SSRN)

• Colorado River Cooperative Agreement (Colorado River District)

• Colorado River Cooperative Agreement

• Partial Final Judgment and Decree of the Water Rights of the Navajo Nation

• Green Mountain Reservoir Administrative Protocol Agreement

• Decision Flowcharts Based on the Interim Guidelines for the Operation of Lake Powell and Lake Mead

2014

• Arizona v. California and the Equitable Apportionment of Interstate Waterways (Patashnik)

• Bill Williams River Water Rights Settlement Act Of 2014

• Restoring Sacred Waters - A Guide to Protecting Tribal Non-Consumptive Water Uses in the Colorado River Basin

• Jul 30 - Pilot System Conservation Program Funding Agreement

• Sep 29 - Over-allocation of the Colorado River: Now it Means Something by Brad Udall (slides)

• Sep - Hazard's Toll, The Costs of Inaction at the Salton Sea (Pacific Institute)

• Dec 9 - Colorado tells California: You're not using our water (Salt Lake Tribune)

2015

• The water czar who reshaped Colorado River politics, Pat Mulroy Bio (HCN)

• "intentionally created unused apportionment": gobbledygook for the greater good (inkstain)

• The Impact Of The Loss Of Electric Generation at Glen Canyon Dam

• Navajo Nation / State Of Utah Water Rights Settlement Agreement

• Tribal Water Rights Settlements and Instream Flow Protection, DesRosier

• Establishing and Preserving Tribal Water Rights in a Water Stressed West, Bovee (jstor)

• The "Upper Basin Voluntary Demand Cap" as a Means of Mitigating Legal Uncertainty In The Colorado River Basin: Modeling Results(waterpolicy.info)

• Liquid Assets - Investing for Impact in the Colorado River Basin (Squire Patton Boggs)

2016

• Investing Our Way Out of the Global Water Crisis (nature.org)

• Water Share, Using Water Markets and impact investment to drive sustainability (Richter, nature.org)

• As Precious as Blood: The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970

• UCRC Upper Colorado River Division States Current and Future Depletion Demand Schedule

• Joint West Slope Risk Study Update

• Grand Valley Water Users Association 2017 Conserved Consumptive Use Pilot Project (Gingrich)

• Grand Valley Water Users Association Conserved Consumptive Use Pilot Project (Harris)

• Preserving the Colorado River Basin: A Q&A with Ted Kowalski (Walton Family Foundation)

• Alternative Water Transfers In Colorado (EDF)

• Nov 10 - White Paper 1: Fill Mead First: A Technical Assessement (Utah State)

• Nov 5 - The General Revision and Forest Reserve Act of 1891 (Cooney)

• Nov 11 - Arizona Water Grab Part One: Water Rights and Water Markets (Desert Water Grab)

2017

• Feb 17 - The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future

• Apr 10 - Upper Colorado Revisited (Robison)

• May 7 - Arizona Water Grab Part 2: Walmart Heirs Push Water Market (Desert Water Grab)

• May 8 - How 'Impact Investing' Can Increase America's Water Security (Walton Family Foundation)

• Oct 25 - Minute 323 on US-Mexico Colorado River Cooperation (Spener)

• Apr 6 - Colorado River Compact Water Bank Workgroup Update (Dan Birch)

2018

• February - Navajo Nation Water Rights in the San Juan Basin (Jarin)

• February - SCPP, Colorado River System Conservation Pilot Program Final report (Wilson Engineering)

• Undated - SCPP, Appendix C: 2018 System Conservation Pilot Program Update (Wilson Engineering)

• March - Drought Contingency Planning and Colorado River Risk Study

• Jun 20 - UCRC Resolution ending SCPP - Regarding the Emergency Upper Basin Drought Contingency Plan, Demand Management (UCRC)

• Undated - System Conservation Pilot Program Contract Template

• Jul 23 - Burman Arizona Joint Briefing Lower Basin Drought Contingency Plan (YouTube)

• August - It's Hard to Fill a Bathtub When the Drain is Wide Open: The Case of Lake Powell

• Aug 28 - Colorado water managers engaging in emergency response planning for Colorado River "Sacrificial Lamb"

• Sep 13 - Front Range Water Council Letter to CWCB

• Sep 17 - SWCD and River District Letter to CWCB

• Sep 19 - CWCB Memo 13 - Newman and Kwon

• Sep 19 - CWCB Board Meeting - Colorado River Basin Drought Contingency Planning (YouTube)

Jim Lochhead, Denver Water
Bennett Raley, Northern Water
Kathleen Curry, Upper Gunnison
Patricia Wells, Denver Water

• Sep 21 - What's in the Cards for the Upper Basin (YouTube)

• Oct 18 - Colorado River Basin Drought Contingency Planning Webinar Eklund/Kwon (YouTube)

• Nov 15 - CWCB Support and Policy Statements Regarding Colorado River Drought Contingency Plans, Demand Management and Compact Administration

• Dec 20 - CRWUA 2018 Lower Basin Panel "Gravity Works" (YouTube)

• December - How Refusal to Accept Inconvenient Science Contributed to the Over-Development of the Colorado River (AGU)

2019

• January - Crisis on the Colorado (Yale Environment 360)

• Mar 28 - Eklund DCP Testimony, House Natural Resources Committee (YouTube)

• May 20 - Colorado River Drought Contingency Plans (USBR)

• Jun 17 - When Hydrology and Management Collide - Udall (YouTube)

• June - The Enduring Role of Tribes in the Colorado River Basin (Water & Tribes Initiative)

• Sep 25 - Making the Case for the Grand Bargain - Kenney (YouTube)

• Oct - Tribal Water Study: An Overview (Water & Tribes Initiative)

• Nov 26 - Science Be Dammed (Kuhn, Fleck Amazon)

• Dec 19 - White Paper 2: Water Resource Modeling Of The Colorado River: Present And Future Strategies (Utah State)

• Excel - Upper Basin Consumptive Use and Loss 1971_2018

• Indian Water Rights Settlements (Congressional Research Service)

• Imperial Irrigation District vs Metropolitan Water (IID)

2020

• Compact Administration Colorado River Basin (Rein)

• Ten Tribes Leadership Team, Becky Mitchell, Celene Hawkins, Anne Castle

• Feb 12 - White Paper 3: Strategies For Managing The Colorado River In An Uncertain Future (Utah State)

• Mar 2 - Water scarcity and fish imperilment driven by beef production, Richter (Nature $$)

• May 19 - Coronavirus has been devastating to the Navajo Nation, and help for a complex fight has been slow (Washington Post)

• May 29 - Western Colorado water purchases stir up worries about the future of farming (Aspen Journalism)

• July - CWCB Demand Management Feasibility Update

• Sep 17 - White Paper 4: The Future Hydrology Of The Colorado River Basin (Utah State)

• Sep 22 - White Paper 5: Stream Flow And Losses Of The Colorado River In The Southern Colorado Plateau (Utah State)

• Oct - A Common Vision for the Colorado River System: Toward a Framework for Sustainability (Water & Tribes Initiative)

• LROC vs Interim Guidelines

• 7D Review

• 7D Review - Appendix A - Operational Documentation

• Walton Family Foundation Grants to entities working on the Colorado River

• Abatti v Imperial Irrigation District

2021

• Jan 3 - Wall Street Eyes Billions in Colorado Water (NY Times $$)

• Jan 6 - Western Slope needs to suspend irrigation to avert water shortage catastrophe, Richter (Denver Post)

• Jan 28 - Colorado's ornery, independent water guardians finally agree on one thing: Wall Street can look elsewhere (Colorado Sun)

• Jan 30 - Water speculation flap signals need for review (GJ Sentinel)

• Jan 31 - Trust issues: Water attorney's role with firm buying ag land adds to river district unease (GJ Sentinel)

• Feb 5 - White Paper 6: Alternative Management Paradigms For The Future Of The Colorado And Green Rivers (Utah State)

• Apr 1 - Homestake State Line Delivery Pilot Reservoir Release (Colorado DWR)

• Apr 9 - The Status of Tribal Water Rights in the Colorado River Basin (Water & Tribes Initiative)

• Apr 15 - Saving The Colorado River - Eklund (SquareSpace)

• Jun 24 - Quantification Settlement Agreement Joint Powers Authority - History, Structure, Funcations and Accomlishments

• Aug 13 - Arizona Tribal Water Rights : Adjudications and Settlements (University of Arizona WRRC)

• Aug 9 - Colorado River District Demand Management Stakeholder Advisory Committee Report

• Oct 2 - The Colorado River Is in Crisis. The Walton Family Is Pushing a Solution

• Future of the Colorado River Project, Seven Part Series 2016-2021 (Utah State)

• Sources of Controversy in the Law of the Colorado River: An Upper Basin View - MacDonnell

• Dec - S.3308, Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act of 2021

• Dec 12 - Arizona Water Grab Part 3: NGOs and Tribal Water Marketing (Desert Water Grab)

• Dec 21 - Green Light for Adaptive Policies on the Colorado River (Fleck, Castle - mdpi.com)

• Ninth Circuit Opinion in Navajo Trust Case 19-17088

2022

• Apr 28 - Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022

• Feb 18 - White Paper 7: Evaluating the Accuracy of Reclamation's 24-Month Study Lake Powell Projections (Utah State)

• July 28 - Upper Division States 5 Point Plan for Additional Actions to Protect Colorado Storage Project Initial Units

• July 13 - Arizona Reconsultation Committee Meeting #5

• Feb 4 - River District addresses controversial water speculation bill (Aspen Journalism)

• Feb 9 - Demand Management Market Structure Conceptual Proposal (Colorado River District Board Meeting on Youtube)

• Feb 9 - Demand Management Market Structure Conceptual Proposal (Colorado River District Board Meeting Packet page 142)

• Mar 3 - Arizona Water Grab Part 4: A critical look at Lake Mead Storage (Desert Water Grab)

• Mar 29 - Looking Upstream: An Upper Basin Perspective, Lochhead, Wolf, Gimbel (University of Arizona WRRC)

• Apr 8 - Assistant Secretray Trujillo Letter to Seven States on 7 maf Lake Powell Release

• Apr 14 - Federal agency weighs emergency action as Colorado River demand outpaces supply(The Nevada Independent)

• Colorado River Crisis Mitigation Strategy #2 - Eliminating Losses from Excess Reservoir Capacity (Millard)

• Apr 19 - Colorado River District Board Meeting on Colorado River Issues

• May 19 - The Colorado River Is In Crisis, And It's Getting Worse Every Day (Washington Post)

• Jun 7 - The Western Water Crisis: Confronting Persistent Drought and Building Resilience on our Forests and Farmland (senate.gov)

• Jun 7 - The Western Water Crisis: Confronting Persistent Drought and Building Resilience on our Forests and Farmland, Written Statement Andy Mueller (senate.gov)

• Jun 14 - Statement of Camille Calimlim Touton, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation U.S. Department of the Interior Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

• Jun 24 - Request for Input on Development of Post-2026 Colorado River Reservoir Operational Strategies for Lake Powell and Lake Mead Under Historically Low Reservoir Conditions (Federal Register)

• Jul 13 - Arizona plans largest desal plant in history with Israeli engineers (Desert Water Grab)

• Jul 20 - Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act H.R. 5118

• Jul 21 - The West's most important water supply is drying up. Soon, life for 40 million people who depend on the Colorado River will change (Denver Post)

• Jul 21 - What will it take to stabilize the Colorado River? (Utah State, Science)

• Aug 8 - Their pleas for water were long ignored. Now tribes are gaining a voice on the Colorado River (azcentral.com)

• Aug 16 - River District Responds to Bureau 24-Month Study (coloradoriverdistrict.org)

• Aug 18 - CAP Letter to Halland and Touton (cap-az.com)

• Aug 28 - Comments on Proposed Development of Post 2026 Colorado River Operational Strategies (Kuhn, Fleck, Schmidt)

• Aug - Antique Plumbing and Leadership Postponed - How the Glen Canyon Dam's Archaic Design Threatens the Colorado River Water System

• Oct - Senator Kelly Letter Threatening California with Salton Sea defunding

• Oct - Lower Basin System Losses Approach (SNWA)

• Oct 28- Interior Department Initiates Significant Action to Protect Colorado River System (USBR)

• Nov 4 - Arizona Reconsultation Committee Meeting #6

• Nov 30 - USBR SEIS Launch Webinar

• Dec 19 - Winters Rights Supreme Court Docket Arizona, et al. Petitioners v. Navajo Nation, et al.

• Dec 19 - S.3308 - Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act of 2022

• Dec 20 - Southern Nevada Water Authority SEIS Letter to USBR

2023

• January - Colorado River Supplemental EIS home page, letters (USBR)

• Jan 13 - Opposition to removal of Division 7 Exemption in Colorado "Use it or Lose it Statute" and restart of the System Conservation Pilot Program this year (Ed Millard)

• Jan 23 - The Morality of Deceit: California's Quantification Settlement Agreement and the Fight for Imperial Valley's Water (Craig William Morgan)

• Jan 23 - Brief for my comments to CWCB meeting Attorney General Report on Navajo Supreme Court Case and Wall between CWCB/UCRC and Ten Tribes (Ed Millard)

• Jan 23 - Brief for my comments to CWCB meeting asking for legal opinion on whether SCPP, DM, SNWA SEIS violates Compact Article III(a) and IV(b) (Ed Millard)

• Jan 29 - Summary of Pre-Scoping Comments for Development of Post-2026 Colorado River Reservoir Operations (USBR)

• Jan 29 - Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks (AP)

• Jan 31 - New York investors snapping up Colorado River water rights, betting big on an increasingly scarce resource (CBS News)

• Jan 31 - Six States SEIS Letter

• Jan 31 - California SEIS Letter

• Feb 6 - Yampa White Green Basin Position Statement: Crisis on the Colorado River

• Feb 7 - Glen Canyon Low Head Modifications (USBR)

• Mar 17 - West Slope water managers will not review, approve applications for conservation program (Aspen Journalism)

• Mar 24 - Draft Drought Security Legislation (Colorado Water Congress)

• March 15 - Brief for my comments to CWCB meeting asking for legal opinion on whether SCPP, violates Compact Article III(a) and IV(b) (Ed Millard)

• Apr 25 - Upper Gunnision WCD comments on SB23-235 (McClow)

Undated

• Glen Canyon Outlet Works Design

• Glen Canyon Spillway Design

Statute

• Colorado Change Case Consumptive Use History Statutes (aka "Use it or Lose It")

Archives

• On The Colorado

• International Boundary and Water Commission Treaties

• International Boundary and Water Commission Minutes

• Tribal Water Use

• Arizona v California, University of Colorado

• University of Arizona Digital Archives (Stewart Udall Papers)

• Delph Carpenter Papers, Colorado State

• Carl Hayden Water, Arizona State

• Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records History and Archives Division Materials

• Tom Connolly Papers, Library of Congress

• Carl Hayden Colorado River Online, Arizona State

• Arizona Memory Project - Colorado River Compact

• Arizona Memory Project - Colorado River

• Colorado River Compact Collection(archives.utah.gov)

• University of Utah, Water

• Utah Department of Natural Resources. Division of Water Rights Colorado River project records (archives.utah.gov)

• William Paul Whitsett Papers, Metropolitan Water (californiarevealed.org)

• Mo Udall Papers, University of Arizona

• Stewart Udall Papers, University of Arizona

• Wayne Aspinall Papers, Denver University

• Nevada Colorado River Commissioner

• Southwestern Water Conservation District Archive at Ft. Lewis College

• Northcutt Ely Papers (Online Archives of California)

• History of CAP/Law of the River(cap-az.com)

• Arizona Water Banking Authority Agreements

• Quantitative Settlement Agreement Joint Powers Authority

• Little Colorado River Adjudication Pending Cases and Decisions

• Gila River Adjudication Pending Cases and Decisions

• Central Arizona Project_Allocations

• National Water Dashboard

• SNOFLO Colorado River