WSP07307

• File Number: 8142.100
• Description: Trinidad Project - Studies - Operation Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1996
• Author: CWCB
• Title: Trinidad Background Info Notebook Part 3
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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reservoir capacity allocated to joint use but unoccupied by sediment at any given time.

4. "Irrigation Capacity" means the 20,000 acre-feet of reservoir capacity allocated to
irrigation and M & I use plus the unsedimented portion of the joint use capacity.
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5. "Permanent Fishery 1)001 Capacity" means the 15.967 acre-feet of reservoir
capacity allocated to fishery and recreation. /I

6. "Permanent Fishery Pool" means the quantity of water stored in the permanent
fishery pool capacity.

7. "Flood Control" means the temporary storage of flood waters at any reservoir pool
level as necessary to alleviate flood damages through the City of Trinidad and downstream

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8. "Flood Control a ,acity" means the 51,000 acre-feet ofc~acity exclusively
allocated to flood control lying above m.s.1. reservoir elevation 6.230.8s1a~ of the survev
published bv the Corps in Nov'tmber. 1994. J.

9. "Reservoir inflow" is to be expressed in mean daily cubic feet per second of time
and means that total flow of water entering the reservoir, comprising measured flows at the inflow
gauging stations and other unmea ,ured inflows entering the reservoir, less such flow of water as
may be acquired by the State of Colorado for filling and maintaining the permanent fishery pool.
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10. "District Irrigable Area" means only the 19.499 acres ofirrigable lands to be
served lying within District boundaries. " f\ '

11. "Irrigation Season': means that period of the year, as determined annually by the
District, during which water may be beneficially applied to the District irrigable area, provided the
Irrigation season'will not begin earlier than April I or end later than October 15, except as
modified by the District with the consent of the Secretary of Interior.

12. "Non-Irrigation Season" - means that period of the year other than the irrigation
season.

13. "District Storage Right" means those rights under which the District may store
water in the irrigation capacity for use within the District.

14. "District Water Supply" means that water supply of the Purgatoire River subject to
District administration for irrigation and M & I use within the District.

15. "Colorado State I ':ngineer" means the Colorado State Engineer or such other
administrative agency having juri ,diction and control over the distribution of the waters of the
State of Colorado.