conservation storage
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Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
that portion of the capacity of reservoirs available for the storage of water for subsequent release for domestic, municipal, irrigation and industrial uses, or any of them, and it excludes any portion of the capacity of reservoirs allocated solely to flood control, power production and sediment control, or any of them.
Defined by the Supreme Court in Oklahoma v. New Mexico, 501 U.S. 221 (1991).