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<br /> <br />Article III. FLOOD CONTROL <br />-- <br /> <br />Trinidad Reservoir shall be operated for flood control benefits <br /> <br />in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of <br /> <br />the Army and following operating principles: <br /> <br />1. All potentially damaging flood inflows shall be temporarily <br /> <br />detained as necessary to limit the flow in so far as possible <br /> <br />to. a nondamaging flow, currently estimated to be 5,000 c.f.s., <br /> <br />downstream from the Trinidad Reservoir. <br /> <br />'2. All flood wa tersstored in the flood control capacity <br /> <br />shall be released at the maximum nondamaging rate insofar <br /> <br />as practicable. <br /> <br />3. Any inflow, other than that stored for irrigation use, <br /> <br />temporarily retained below the bottom of the flood control <br /> <br />capacity for flood control purposes, shall be released by <br /> <br />the operating agency at such a rate, time, and quantity as <br /> <br />maybe ordered by the Colorado State Engineer, but within <br /> <br />nondamaging flow in the channels below the reservoir. <br /> <br /> <br />Page 7 <br /> <br />