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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />lGGS <br /> <br />hereafter charged against, or deducted from, the 1908 Priority to store 20,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />18. "Flow", whether stated in cubic feet per second (c.f.s.) or not, means a <br />measurement in acre-feet per day. One c.f.s. flowing for one day will create 1.9835 acre-feet. <br />The District shall account for water daily, in acre-feet. <br /> <br />Article HI - FLOOD CONTROl. <br /> <br />Trinidad Reservoir shall be operated for flood control benefits in accordance with <br />regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army and the following operating principles: <br /> <br />1. All potentially damaging flood inflows shall be temporarily detained as necessary <br />to limit the flow insofar as possible to a non-damaging flow, currently estimated to be 5,000 <br />c.f.s., downstream from the Trinidad Reservoir. <br /> <br />2. All flood water stored in the flow control capacity shall be released at the <br />maximum non-damaging rate insofar as practicable. <br /> <br />3. Any Reservoir inflow, other than that stored for irrigation and Municipal and <br />Industrial (M & I) and Permanent Fishery Pool use, temporarily retained below the bottom ofthe <br />Floorl Control Capacity for Flood Control purposes, shall be released by the operating agency at <br />such a rate, time, and quantity as may be ordered by the Colorado State Engineer, but within non- <br />damaging flow in the chlllmels below the Reservoir. <br /> <br />Article IV - IRRIGATION, MUNICIPAL AND INDTrSTRIAT. <br /> <br />Administration of the lITigation Capacity in Trinidad Reservoir and the distribution of <br />water to the District lITigable Area and to M & I uses within the District will be made by the <br />District in accordance with House Document No. 325, 84th Congress, 2d Session, and these <br />Operating Principles. Agreements, satisfactory to the Secretary ofInterior, have been entered <br />into between the District and the ditch companies and other owners of affected water rights to <br />insure that these principles and the operation described herein shall be adopted. <br /> <br />The principles and provisions under which the District will administer water supplies to <br />the Djstrict lITigable Area and to M & I uses within the District are contained in the following <br />four parts of this Article: "Water Rights", "Limits of Land and Water Use", "District Water <br />Supply", and "Operation and Exercise of Water Rights". <br /> <br />A. <br /> <br />Water Rights <br /> <br />Accomplishment of the following conditions is necessary under the laws of the State of <br /> <br />4 <br />