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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1GOi <br /> <br />Fishery Pool Capacity. <br /> <br />7. "Flood Control" means the temporary storage of flood waters at any Reservoir <br />pool level as necessary to alleviate flood damages through the City of Trinidad and downstream <br />reaches. <br /> <br />8. "Flood Control Capacity" means the 51,000 acre-feet of capacity exclusively <br />allocated to flood control lying above Reservoir elevation 6,230.85 feet mean sea level as of the <br />survey published by the Corps in November, 1994. <br /> <br />9. "Reservoir inflow" is to be expressed in mean daily cubic feet per second of time <br />and means that total flow of water entering the Reservoir, comprising measured flows at the <br />inflow gaging stations and other unmeasured inflows entering the Reservoir, less such flow of <br />water as may be acquired by the State of Colorado for filling and maintaining the Pennanent <br />Fishery Pool. <br /> <br />10. "District Irrigable Area" means only the 19,499 acres ofirrigable lands to be <br />served lying within District boundaries. <br /> <br />II. "Irrigation Season" means that period of the year, as detennined annually by the <br />District, during which water may be beneficially applied to the District lrrigable Area, provided <br />the irrigation season will not begin earlier than April I or end later than October 15, except as <br />modified by the District with the consent of the Secretary ofInterior. <br /> <br />12. <br />Season. <br /> <br />"Non-Irrigation Season" - means that period ofthe year other than the Irrigation <br /> <br />13. "District Storage Right" means those rights under which the District may store <br />water in the Irrigation Capacity for use within the District. <br /> <br />14. "District Water Supply" means that water supply of the Purgatoire River subject <br />to District administration for irrigation and M & I use within the District. <br /> <br />IS. "Colorado State Engineer" means the Colorado State Engineer or such other <br />administrative agency having jurisdiction and control over the distribution of the waters of the <br />State of Colorado. <br /> <br />16. "Operating Agency" means the U.S. Army Engineer District, Albuquerque, New <br />Mexico, Corps of Engineers. <br /> <br />17. "Winter water under the direct flow rights" means that the direct flow priorities <br />set forth on pages 5 and 6 of these Operating Principles may hereafter be stored in the Irrigation <br />Capacity (initially about 59,000 acre-feet) during the Non-Irrigation Season, and shall not be <br /> <br />3 <br />