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<br />, ~ <br />192b <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />13. "District Storage Right" means those rights under which <br />the District may store water in the irrigation capacity <br />for use on the District irrigable area. <br /> <br />14. "District Water Supply" means that water supply of the <br />Purgatoire River subject to District administration for <br />irrigation use Wlthin the District irrigable area. <br /> <br />15. "Colorado State Engineer" means the Colorado State <br />Engineer or such other administrative agency having <br />jurisdiction and control over the distribution of the <br />waters of the State of Colorado. <br /> <br />16. "Operating Agency" means the U.S. Arr1Iy Engineer District, <br />Albuquerque, Ne,", Mexico, Corps of Engineers. <br /> <br />Article III - FLOOD CONTROL <br /> <br />Trinidad Reservoir shall be operated for flood control benefits in <br />accordance w:Lth regulations preecribed by the Secretary of the Army <br />and the following operating principles: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1. All potentially damaging flood inflows shall be <br />temporarily detained as necessary to l.iJIlit the n.o,", <br />insofar as possible to a nondamaging flo,"" currently <br />estimated to be 5,000 c.f.s., downstream from the <br />Trinidad Reservoir. <br /> <br />2. All flood waters stored in the flood control capacity <br />shall be released at the maximum nondamaging rate <br />insofar as practicable. <br /> <br />3. Any inflow, other than that stored for irrigation use, <br />temporarily retained below the bottom of the flood <br />control capacity for flood control purposes, shall be <br />released by the operating. agency at such a rate, time, <br />and quantity as may be ordered by the Colorado State <br />Engineer, but w:Lthin nondamaging flow in the channels <br />below the reservoir. <br /> <br />Article IV - IRRIGATION <br /> <br />Administration of the irrigation capacity in Trinidad Reservoir and <br />the distribution of water to the District irrigable area Wlll be <br />made by the District in accordance w:Lth House Document No. 325, <br />84th Congress, 2d Session, and these operating principles. Agree- <br />ments, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, shall be <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />Rev. 9/64 <br /> <br />I <br />