Common use of USE OF SETTLEMENT MODEL Clause in Contracts

USE OF SETTLEMENT MODEL. The annual surface water depletion effects of each Party’s Future Groundwater Diversions shall be simulated with the Settlement Model using the Party’s actual annual diversion amounts and actual well locations. 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.