WSP10989

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1942
• Title: Fourth Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1942
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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1929 whenever there is less than 400,000 acre feet of
usable water in proj ect storage; provided, that if the ac-
tual releases of usable water from the beginning of the
calendar year following the effective date of this Com-
pact, or from the beginning of the calendar year following
actual spill, have aggregated more than an average of
790,000 acre feet per annum, the time at which such mini-
mum stage is reached shall be adjusted to compensate for
the difference between the total actual release and re-
leases at such average rate; provided, further, that Colo-
rado, or New Mexico, or both, may relinquish accrued
credits at any time, and Texas may accept such relinquish-
ed water, and in such event the state, or states, so relin-
quishing shall be entitled to store water in the amount of
the water so relinquished,

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ARTICLE VIII

During the month of January of any year the Com-
missioner for Texas may demand of Colorado and New
Mexico, and the Commissioner for New Mexico may de-
mand of Colorado, the release of water from storage reser-
voirs constructed after 1929 to the amount of the accrued
debits of Colorado and New Mexico, respectively, and
such releases shall be made by each at the greatest rate
practicable under the conditions then prevailing, and in
proportion to the total debit of each, and in amounts, lim-
ited by their accrued debits, sufficient to bring the quan-
tity of usable water in project storage to 600,000 acre feet
by March first and to maintain this quantity in storage un-
til April thirtieth, to the end that a normal release of
790,000 acre feet may be found from project storage in
that year.

ARTICLE IX

Colorado agrees with New Mexico that in event the
United States or the State of New Mexico decides to con-
struct the necessary works for diverting the waters of the
San Juan River, or any of its tributaries, into the Rio
Grande, Colorado hereby consents to the construction of
said works and the diversion of waters from the San Juan
River, or the tributaries thereof, into the Rio Grande in
New Mexico, provided the present and prospective uses
of water in Colorado bv other diversions from the San
Juan River, or its tributaries, are protected.

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ARTICLE X

In the event water from another drainage basin shall
be imported into the Rio Grande Basin by the United