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<br />-10- <br /> <br />"EXPLANATION OF TREATY PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE RIO GRANDE. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Part II of the treaty, inoluding Artioles 4 to 9, inolusive, relate 3~9. <br /> <br />oifioally to the Rio Grande. Certain general provisions of the treaty also are <br /> <br />pertinent to this river. <br /> <br />Artiole 4 allooates the waters of the Rio Grande; Artiole 5 provides for the <br /> <br />oonstruotion of the major storage reservoirs and joint diversion dams; Artiole <br /> <br />6 provides for study of flood oontrol works; Artiole 7 provides for the study of <br /> <br />and preparation of plans for hydro-eleotrio power plants; Artiole 8 provides that <br /> <br />the Commission shall formulate rules for operating the river and sets up some <br /> <br />general rules for operating the major storage reservoirs; and Artiole 9 pertains <br /> <br />f/f <br /> <br />to general regulations for the operation of the river and the keeping of reoords. <br /> <br />By Artiole 4 there is allooated to Mexioo all of the waters reaohing the <br /> <br />main ohannel from the San Juan and Alamo Rivers, inoluding the return flow from <br /> <br />the lands irrigated by those rivers; one-half of the flow from the main ohannel <br /> <br />of the Rio Grande below the lowest major international storage dam not otherwise <br /> <br />allooated by the treaty; two-thirds of the flow reaohing the main ohannel of the <br /> <br />Rio Grande from oertain Mexioan tributaries, inoluding the Conohos, San Diego, <br /> <br />San Rodrigo, Esoondido, and Salado Rivers and Las Vaoas Arroyo subjeot to oertain <br /> <br />limitations, and one-half of all other flow in the river not otherwise allooated <br /> <br />between Fort Quitman and the lowest major international storage dam. <br /> <br />The Artiole allooates to the United States all the waters of the prinoipal <br /> <br />United States tributaries, speoifioally named as ths Peoos and Devils Rivers, <br /> <br />~1 <br /> <br />Goodenough Spring, and Alamito, Terlingua, San Felipe, and Pinto Creeksl one- <br /> <br />half the flow of the main ohannel of the Rio Grande below the lowest major inter- <br /> <br />, <br />'" <br /> <br />national storage dam not otherwise speoifioally allooated by the treaty; one- <br /> <br />third of the flow reaohing the main ohannel from the main Mexioan tributaries <br />