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-.".------...:-.-- . luS\) 16. "Operating Agency" means that U.S. Army Engineer District, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Corps of Engineers. 17. "Winter water under the direct flow rights" means that the direct flow priorities set forth on pages 6 and 7 of these Operating Principles may hereafter be stored in the Irrigation Capacity (initially about 59,000 acre-feet) during the non-irrigation season, and shall not be hereafter charged against, or deducted from, the 1908 Priority to store 20,000 acre-feet. 18. "Flow", whether stated in cubic feet per second (c.fs.) or not, means a measurement in acre-feet per day. One c.fs. flowing for one day will create 1.9835 acre-feet. The District shall account for water daily, in acre feet. Article III - FLOOD CONTROL Trinidad Reservoir shall be operated for flood control benefits in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army and the following operating principles: . 1. All potentially damaging flood inflows shall be temporarily detained as necessary to limit the flow insofar as possible to a non-damaging flow, currently estimated to be 5,000 cfs., downstream from the Trinidad Reservoir. 2. All flood water stored in the flow control capacity shall be released at the maximum non-damaging rate insofar as practicable. 3. Any inflow, other than that stored for irrigation and M & I use, temporarily retained below the bottom of the flood control capacity for flood control purposes, shall be released by the operating agency at such a rate, time, and quantity as may be ordered by the Colorado State Engineer, but within non-damaging flow in the channels below the reservoir. Article IV - IRRIGATION. MUNICIPAL AND INDUSTRIAL Administration of the irrigation capacity in Trinidad Reservoir and the distribution of wat er to the District irrigable area and to M & I uses within the District will be made by the District in accordance with House Document No. 325, 84th Congress, 2d Session, and these operating principles. Agreements, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, have been entered into between the District and the ditch companies and other owners of affected water rights to insure that these principles and the operation described herein shall be adopted. . The principles and provisions under which the District will administer water supplies to the District irrigable area and to M & I uses within the District are contained in the following four parts of this Article: "Water Rights" - "Limits of Land and Water Use", "District Water Supply", and "Operation and Exercise of Water Rights".