WSP04944

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1949
• Title: Eleventh Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1949
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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In any year in which there is actual spill 01' usable wa ter, or
a t the time of hypothetical spill thereof, all accrued debits 01'
Colorado, or New Mexico, or both, at the beginning of the year shall
be cancelled.

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In any year in which the aggregate 01' accrued debits of Colorado
and. New Mexico exceeds the mininnun unfilled caracity of project stor-
age, such debits shall be reduced proportionally to an aggregate
amount equal to such mininnun unfilled caracity.

To the extent that accrued credits are ilnpounded in reservoirs
between San Marcial and Courchesne, and to the extent that accrued
debits are ilnpounded in reservoirs above San Marcial, such credits
and debits shall be reduced alUlually to compeneate for evaporation
lossos in the proportion that such credits or debits bore to the
total amount of water in such reservoirs during the year.

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ARTICLE VII

Neither Colorado nor New Mexico shall increase the amount of
water in storage in reservoirs constructed after 1929 whenever there
is less than 400,000 acre-feet of usable water in project storage;
provided, that if the actual releases of usable water from the be-
ginning. of the calendar year following the effective date of this
Compact, or from the beginning of the calendar year following aC-
tual spill, have aggregated more than an average of 790,000 acre-
feet per alUlUJD, the time at which such minimum stage is reached
shall be adjusted to compensate for the difference between the
total actual release and releases at such average rate; prOVided,
further, that COlorado, 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 sta"e, or states, so relinquish-
ing shall be entitled to store water in the amount of the water so
relinquished.

ARTICIE VIII

During the month 01' January of any year the Commissioner for
Texas may demand of Colorado and New Mexico, and the Commissioner for
New Mexico may demand of Colorado, the release of water from storage
reservoirs 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, limited by their accrued debits, sufficient to bring the
quantity of usable water in project storage to toO,ooO acre-feet by
March first and to maintain this quantity in storage until April
thirtieth, to t he end that a normaJ. release of 790,000 acre-feet may

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