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Show 86 INTERSTATE COMPACTS southeastern corner of Costilla County in Colorado and flows in a general westerly direction crossing the Boundary three times above its confluence with the Rio Grande in New Mexico. (b) The "Canyon Mouth" is that point on Costilla Creek in New Mexico where the stream leaves the mountains and emerges into the San Luis Valley. (c) The "Amalia Area" is that irrigated area in New Mexico above the Canyon Mouth and below the Costilla Reservoir which is served by decreed direct flow water rights. (d) The "Costilla-Garcia Area" is that area extending from the Canyon Mouth in New Mexico to a point in Colorado about four miles downstream from the Boundary, being a compact body of irrigated land on either side of Costilla Creek served by decreed direct flow water rights. (e) The "Eastdale Reservoir No. 1" is that off-channel reservoir located in Colorado in Sections 7, 8 and 18, Township 1 North,. Range 73 West, and Sections 12 and 13, Township 1 North, Range 74 West, of the Costilla Estates Survey, with a nominal capacity of three thousand four hundred sixty-eight (3,468) acre-feet and a present usable capacity of two thousand (2,000) acre-feet. (f) The "Eastdale Reservoir No. 2" is that off-channel reservoir located in Colorado in Sections 3, 4, 9 and 10, Township 1 North, Range 73 West, of the Costilla Estates Survey, with a nominal capacity of three thousand forty-one (3,041) acre-feet. (g) The "Costilla Reservoir" is that channel reservoir, having a nominal capacity of fifteen thousand seven hundred (15,700) acre-feet, located in New Mexico near the headwaters of Costilla Creek. The present Usable Capacity of the reservoir is eleven thousand (11,000) acre-feet, subject to future adjustment by the State Engineer of New Mexico. The condition of Costilla dam may be such that the State Engineer of New Mexico will not per- mit storage above a determined stage except for short periods of time. (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, Township 1 South, Range 73 West, of the Costilla Estates Survey, and runs in a northwesterly direction to the Boundary near Boundary Monument No. 140. (i) The "Boundary" is the term used herein to describe the common boundary line between Colorado and New Mexico. (j) The term "Costilla Reservoir System" means and includes the Costilla Reservoir and the Cerro Canal, the permits for the storage of water in Costilla Reservoir, the twenty-four and fifty- two hundredths (24.52) cubic feet 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 (75.48) cubic feet per second of time. (k) The term "Costilla Reservoir System 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 usable portion of the yield of the twenty-four and fifty-two hundredths (24.52) cubic feet per second of time of |
