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File Number
8510.100.60
Description
Rio Grand Compact Commission
Basin
Rio Grande
Date
1/1/2004
Author
Rio Grande Compact Commission
Title
2004 Annual Report of the Rio Grand Compact Commission
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Annual Report
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<br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />RIO GRANDE COMPACT <br /> <br />(I) "Usable Water" is all' water, exclusive of credit water, which is in project storage and <br />which is available for release in accordance with irrigation demands, including deliveries to Mexico. <br /> <br />(m) "Credit Water" is that amount of water in project storage which is equal to the accrued <br />credit of Colorado, or New Mexico, or both. <br /> <br />(n) "Unfilled Capacity" is the difference between the total physical capacity of project <br />storage and the amount of usable water then in storage. <br /> <br />(0) "Actual Release" is the amount of usable water released in any calendar year from the <br />lowest reservoir comprising project storage. <br /> <br />(p) "Actual Spill" is all water which is actually spilled from Elephant Butte Reservoir, or is <br />released therefrom for flood control, in excess of the current demand on project storage and which <br />does not become usable water by storage in another reservoir; provided, that actual spill of usable <br />water cannot occur until all credit water shall have been spilled. <br /> <br />(q)"Hypothetical spilr is the time in any year at which usable water would have spilled from <br />project storage if 790,000 acre feet had been released therefrom at rates proportional to the actual <br />release in every year from the starting date to the end of the year in which hypothetical spill occurs; in <br />computing hypothetical spill the initial condition shall be the amount of usable water in project storage <br />at the beginning of the calendar year following the effective date of this Compact, and 'thereafter the <br />initial condition shall be the amount of usable water in project storage at the beginning of the <br />calendar year following each actual spill. <br /> <br />ARTICLE II <br /> <br />The Commission shall cause to be maintained and operated a stream gaging station <br />equipped with an automatic water stage recorder at each of the following points. to-wit: <br /> <br />(a) On the Rio Grande near Del Norte above the principal points of diversion to the San <br />Luis Valley; <br /> <br />(b) On the Conejos River near Mogote; <br /> <br />(c) On the Los Pinos River near Ortiz; <br /> <br />(d) On the San Antonio River at Ortiz; <br /> <br />(e) On the Conejos River at its mouths near Los Sauces; <br /> <br />(f) On the Rio Grande near Lobatos; <br /> <br />(g) On the Rio Chama below EI Vado Reservoir; <br /> <br />(h) On the Rio Grande at Otowi Bridge near San IIdefonso; <br /> <br />(i) On the Rio Grande near San Acacia; <br /> <br />(j) On the Rio Grande at San Marcial; <br /> <br />(k) On the Rio Grande below Elephant Butte Reservoir; <br /> <br />(I) On the Rio Grande below Caballo Reservoir. <br /> <br />Similar gaging stations shall be maintained and operated below any other <br />reservoir constructed after 1929, and at such other points as may be necessary for the <br />securing of records required for the carrying out of the Compact; and automatic water <br />stage recorders shall be maintained and operated on each of the reservoirs mentioned, <br />and on all others constructed after 1929. <br />
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