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. . ,.~. ": ", . 1:'- ..,.~ ":-.1 ..-\ c., (k) "Project Storage" is the combined capacity of Elephan t Butte Reservoir ,_) and all other reservoirs actually availAble for the storaGe of usable ~~ter be- low Elephant Butte Reservoir and above the first diversion to lands of the P~o Grande Project, but not more than a total of 2,638,860 acre-feet. (1) "Usable Water" 1s all water, exclusive of credit water, which is in project stora&e and which is available for relflsse in accordance with irrigation demands. including deliveries to Uexico. (m) "Credit Water" is that amount of water in project storase which is equal to the accrued credit of Colorado. or New Mexico, or both. city (n) "Unfilled Capacity" is the difference between the total physical capa- of project stora~e and the arnoupt of usable \"later then in stora::;e. (0) "Actual Release" is the amount of usable water released in any calen- year from tte lowest reservoir c0mrrising project storage. dar (p) "Aotual Spill" is all water which is actually spilled from Elephant Butte Reservoir, or is released therefrcm for flood contrel, in excess of the current demand on project storage and ~hich does Dot become usable WBter by storage in another reserv()ir; provided, that actual spill of usable water can- net occur Wltil all credi t wa. ter shall !-.avo been spilled. (q) "Hypothetical Spill" is the time in any year at which usable water would have spilled from prcjeet storage if 790,000 acre feet had been released therefrom at rates proportional to the actual release in every year from ttia startir.g date to the end of the year in which hypothetical spill occurs; in computing hypothetical spill the initio 1 condition shall be the amoWlt of us- able ymter in project storage At the beginning of the calendar year following the. effective date of t~is Compact. and thereafter the initial condition shall be the amount of usable 'Nater in project storage at the beginning of the cal- endar year following each actual spill. AllTICLE II The Commission shall cause to be no.intainod and orerated a streAm zabing station equipped ~':itb An fluto:r::mtic \\1\ter stags recorder at each of the follow- ing points, to-wit: (a) On the Rio Grande near Del Norte above the principel points of di- version to the SeD Luis Valley; (b) On the Conejos River near kogote; (c) On the Los FinDs River Dear Ortiz I (d) On the S~'.D Antonio Hi ver at Crtiz; (e) On the Conejos River at its mcuth near Los Sa.uces; (f) On the Rio Grande near Lobatos; (g) On the Rio Ch ame. be 1 QV'i El Vadc Reservoir;