Examples of Taos Valley in a sentence
Prior to the entry of a Partial Final Decree on the Pueblo’s water rights, the Parties shall jointly move the Court to adopt the following values to be used for adjudication of all Pueblo and non-Indian water rights in the Taos Valley Stream System.
PUEBLO LANDS.—The term ‘‘Pueblo lands’’ means those lands located within the Taos Valley to which the Pueblo, or the United States in its capacity as trustee for the Pueblo, holds title subject to Federal law limitations on alienation.
Surface water depletion offsets required under this Settlement Agreement shall be calculated using a superposition application of the Settlement Model in which the simulated effects on evapotranspiration caused by Future Groundwater Diversions have been distributed to the Taos Valley Tributaries and 35% of the tributary offsets required on the Rio Pueblo de Taos Stream Segments A through D and on the Upper and Lower Rio Xxxxxx Stream Segments shall be offset by use of the Buffalo Pasture Recharge Project.
EFFECT ON WATER RIGHTS.—Such diversion or use off Pueblo lands under paragraph (1) shall not impair water rights or increase surface water depletions within the Taos Valley.
State Engineer (“the State”), the Town of Taos, the Taos Valley Acequia Association, the El Prado Water and Sanitation District, and the Twelve (12) Taos-area Mutual Domestic Water Consumer Associations (collectively, “the Parties”).
To avoid the disruption that the Pueblo’s immediately exercising its full Historically Irrigated Acreage Right (“HIA Right”) would cause to non-Indian irrigation in the Taos Valley and in consideration for this Settlement Agreement, the Pueblo shall forbear from the immediate full exercise of its HIA Right.
The Pueblo shall recognize the standing of any owner of water rights in the Taos Valley who objects that a permit action Impaired or would Impair his or her surface water or groundwater right.
This Settlement Model, which is fully documented in Attachment 3, represents the Taos Valley Stream System and can be used to calculate the surface water depletion effects on the Rio Grande Segment, Taos Valley Tributaries, and the Buffalo Pasture that have been or will be caused by any Taos Valley groundwater diversions.
EFFECT ON WATER RIGHTS.—Such diver- sion or use off Pueblo Lands under paragraph (1) shall not impair water rights or increase surface water depletions within the Taos Valley.
However, because of the location of xxxxx in the Taos Valley, the Buffalo Pasture is affected by groundwater diversions, and due to the nature of the Buffalo Pasture, existing State Engineer permitting requirements cannot offset effectively the Buffalo Pasture Depletions resulting from groundwater diversions made from points of diversion located outside of Pueblo Lands.