Maureen Garmon
Faculty Services Librarian
Law of the River documents from Reclamation: Managing Water in the West. This is the fourth in a series of volumes dedicated to chronicling the history of the use and management of the Colorado River.
The print volume is in the library's Government Documents section (lower level) at I 27:81:C 71/. Along with the three previous volumes, it is available for browsing and searching electronically here. Selected documents are also available on the Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation web page.
Key documents in the river's lengthy legal history follow. For related hearing transcripts and meeting minutes on Arizona's role in the Compact, see The Colorado River Compact, part of the Cracchiolo Law Library's Digital Collections.
Compacts and Basin Map
Litigation: Arizona v. California
- Special Master Rifkind, Report (1960)
- Opinion (1963)
- Decree (1964)
- Supplemental Decree (1979)
- Special Master Tuttle, Report (1982)
- Opinion (1983)
- Second Supplemental Decree (1984)
- Special Master McGarr, Report, Recommendations and Appendix (1999)
- Opinion (2000)
- Supplemental Decree (2000)
- Special Master, McGarr, Approval of Final Settlements and Recommendations (2005)
- Consolidated Decree (2006)
Litigation: CAP
Treaties and Agreements
Mexico
- Mexican Water Treaty (1944)
- Minute 242 (1973)
- Joint Declaration (2000)
- Minute 306 (2000)
- Memorandum of Understanding (2001)
- Joint U.S.-Mexico Statement (2007)
State of Arizona
- Contract for Delivery of Water (1944)
- Yuma Mesa Division Final Administrative Determination (2001)
- Arizona Water Settlements Act-Firming Agreement (2007)
State of California
- Seven Party Agreement (1931)
- General Regulations (1931)
- Lower Colorado Water Supply Act (1986)
- San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement Act (1988)
- Packard Amendment (2000)
- Colorado River Water Delivery Agreement (2003)
- Lower Colorado Water Supply Act Amendment (2005)
- Temporary Re-regulation of Excess River Flows-IID (2006)
- Temporary Re-regulation of Excess River Flows-MWD (2006)
- Subtitle J-All American Canal Projects (2006)
State of Nevada
- Storage and Interstate Release Agreement-AWBA,SNWA, BOR (2002)
- Storage and Interstate Release Agreement-MWB, SNWA, BOR (2004)