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Show -65 d- (h) The "Cerro Canal is that irrigation canal which diverts water from the left "bank of Costilla Creek in New Mexico near the southwest corner of Section 12, TownBhip 1 South, Range 73 West, of the Costilla Estates Survey, and runs in a northwesterly di- rection to the Boundary near Boundary Monument No. 140. (i) The "Boundary" ie tfaa term used herein to describe the common boundary lino between Colorado and New Mexico. (j) The term '''Costilla Reservoir System" means and includes the Costilla Reservoir and the Corro Canal, the permits for the storage of water in Cootilla Reservoir, the twsnty-four and fifty- two hundredths (2h ,'i2) cubic foet per second of time of direct flow water rights transferred to the Cerro Canal, and the permits for the diversion of direct flow water by the Cerro Canal as adjusted herein to seventy-five and forty-eight hundredths (75*^8) cubic feet per second of time. (k) The term "Costilla Reservoir Systsn Safe Yield" means that quantity of usable water made available each year by the Costilla Reservoir System. The safe yield represents the most beneficial operation of the Costilla Reservoir System through the use, first, of the total ueable portion of the yield of the twenty- four and fifty-two hundredth® (2^.52) cubic feet per second of time of direct flow rights transferred to the Cerro Canal, second, of the total usable portion of the yield of the direct flow Cerro Canal permits, arid third, of that portion of the water stored in Costilla Reservoir required to complete such safe yield. |