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Chuck Bryant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

No, Nevada, I think, is as well.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

Oh, Nevada, that's right.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

The one proposal that they initially came up with, though, kind of one of the key early things was they promised the lower basin, all right, you're going to get some extra water here because you've already got these projects.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

You're kind of grandfathered in because you've got these projects and developments underway.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

So you're going to get some extra water.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

And nobody really liked it.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

The lower basin didn't even like this idea to begin with.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

Yeah, he held his nose and voted yes.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

There's no way.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

I mean, they all signed on, but like you said, no one really thought it was super fair.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

So the compact, like I said, divided things up into the upper and the lower basin.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

And that divide actually has a place, like a physical place, which is Lee Ferry, L-E-E-F-E-R-R-Y.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

Not Lee Scratch Perry.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

That is at the border where the river passes from the upper watershed to the lower watershed.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

And that is where this really unique place, quite frankly, where all the tributaries upstream come together in this one beautiful single stream before splitting back up again to other branches on the other side.

Stuff You Should Know
The Colorado River Compact

So they looked at that and said, hey, Lee Ferry looks like probably a pretty good spot to divide this.