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Show -5U- The application of this schedule shall be subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth and appropriate adjustments shall he made for (a) any change in location of gaging stations; (b) depletion after 1929 in New Mexico at any time of the year of the natural runoff at Otowi Bridgej (c) depletion of the runoff during July, August and September of tributaries between Otowi Bridge and San Marcial, by works constructed after 1937; an<i (d) any transmountain diversions into the Rio Grande between Lobatos and San Marcial. Concurrect records shall be kept of the flow of the Rio Grande at San Marcial, near San Acacia, and of the release from Elephant Butte Reservoir, to the end that the records at these three stations may be correlated» ARTICLE V. ' If at; any time it should be the unanimous finding and determination of the Commission that because of changed physical conditions, or for any other reason, reliable records are not obtainable, or cannot be obtained, at any of the stream gaging stations herein referred to, such stations may, with the unanimous approval of the Commission, be abandoned, and with such approval another station, or other stations, shall be established and new measurements shall be substituted which, in the unanimous opinion of the Commission, will result in substantially the same results, so far as the rights and obligations to deliver water are concerned, as would have existed if such substitution of stations and measurements had not been so made. ARTICLE VI. Commencing with the year following the effective date of this Compact, all credits and debits of Colorado and New Mexico shall be computed for each calendar year; provided, that in a year of actual spill no annual credits nor annual debits shall be computed for that year. In the case of Colorado, no annual debit nor accrued debit shall exceed 100,000 acre feet, except as either or both may be caused by holdover storage of water in reservoirs constructed after 1937 in "the drainage basin of the Rio Grande above Lobatos• Within the physical limitations of storage capacity in. such reservoirs, Colorado shall retain water in storage at all times to the extent of its accrued debit. In the case of New Mexico, the accrued debit shall not exceed 200,000 acre feet a*t any time, except as such debit may bo caused by holdover storage of water in reservoirs constructed after 1929 in the drainage basin of the Rio Grande between Lobatos and San Marcial. Within the physical limitations of storage capacity in such reservoirs, New Mexico shall retain water in storage at all times to the extent of its accrued debit. In computing the magnitude of accrued credits or debits, -New Mexico shall not be charged with any greater debit in any one year than the sum of 150,000 acre feet and all gains in the quantity of water in storage in such year., The Commission by unanimous action may authorize the release from storage of any amount of water which is then being held in storage by reason of accrued debits of Colorado or New Mexico; provided, that such water shell be replaced at the first: opportunity thereafter. |