WSP00691

• File Number: 8142.700
• Description: Trinidad Project - Annual Operating Plans and Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 12/1/1996
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Review of Operating Principles and Project Operations Final Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Operating Principles/Plan

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13. "District Storage Right" means those rights under which
the District may store water in the irrigation capacity
for use on the District irrigable area.

14. "District Water Supply" means that water supp~ of the
Purgatoire River subject to District administration for
. irrigation use wi thin the District irrigable area.

15. "Colorado State Engineer" means the Colorado State
Engineer or such other administrative agency having
jurisdiction and control over the distribution of the
waters of the State of Colorado.

16. "Operating Agency" means the U.S. Army Engineer District,
Albuquerque, New Mexic9, Corps of Engineers.'

Article III - FLOOD CONTROL

Trinidad Reservoir shall be operated for flood control benefits in
accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army
and the following operating principles:

1. All potentially damaging flood inflows shall be
temporari~ detained as necessary to limit the flow
insofar as possible to a nondamaging flow, current~
estimated to be 5,000 c.f.s., downstream from the
Trinidad Reservoir.

2. All flood waters stored in the flood control capacity
shall be released at the maximum nondamaging rate
insofar as practicable.

3. Any inflow, other than that stored for irrigation use,
temporari~ retained below the bottom of the flood
control capaCity for flood control purposes, shall be
released by the operating agency at such a rate, time,
and quantity as may be ordered by the Colorado State
EnKineer, but within nondamaging flow in the channeJ.s
. below the reservoir.

Article IV - IRRIGATION

Administration of the irrigation capacity in Trinidad Reservoir and
the distribution of water to the District irrigablearea will be
made by the District in accordance with House Document No. 325,
8!.th Congress, 2d Session, and these operating principles. Agree-
ments, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, shall be

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Rev. 9/64