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<br />G" .' <br />1 ~~; <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />C. <br /> <br />District Water Supply <br /> <br />1. That water supply of the Purgatoire River subject to District administration for <br />irrigation and M & I use within the District, defined as the District water suoply, consists of: <br /> <br />(a) The water stored under the District storage right in the irri\?:ation capacity, <br />(initially about 59,000 acre feet). <br /> <br />(b) The stream gains to the Purgatoire River below Trinidad Dam that are <br />divertible to the District irrigable area for irrigation through the District's exercise of the water <br />rights listed in IVAI. <br /> <br />( c) That portion of the reservoir inflow at Trinidad Dam which is available to <br />the District during the irri~ation season through the District's exercise of the water rights listed in <br />IVAI. <br /> <br />(d) Any water acquired by the District and stored in the irrigation capacitv of <br />the reservoir by exchange or substitution. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />2. The District water supply will be allocated by the District to the ditches within the <br />District to provide each acre of the District irrigable area an equitable share of the District water <br />supplv after allowance has been made for individual ditch transportation losses, provided such <br />allocation will not exceed the irrigation requirements at the farm head gate. subject to the special <br />provisions of the Hoehne and Model contracts.. <br /> <br />D. Operation and Exercise of Water Rights <br /> <br />The principles governing operation ofthe irrigation capacity and the District's exercise of <br />the assigned direct flow water rights listed under IVAI. and the District storage right are <br />hereinafter set forth as they apply to operations during either the non-irrigation season or <br />irrigation season. <br /> <br />1. Non-interference with Downstream Water Rights <br /> <br />(a) Bypasses to the river shall be made at any time during the year to satisfY <br />downstream senior rights as ordered by the Colorado State Engineer to the extent that such <br />demands are not met by stream gains or otherwise satisfied but are limited to the extent as <br />determined by the Colorado State Engineer to actually benefit such rights without unnecessary <br />waste through channel losses. <br /> <br />(b) Reservoir inflow in excess of the amount stored under the transferred <br />Model right may be detained in the reservoir at. such times as John Martin Reservoir is reasonably <br />expected to spill; to the extent that John Martin Reservoir would have spilled, such detained water <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />8 <br />