Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan

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For this water planning update, five stream gages, shown on Figure 5-7, were analyzed in more detail. These stations were chosen because of their locations in the hydrologic system, completeness of record, and representativeness as key sources of supply. The Otowi gage is upstream of the Middle Rio Grande planning region, but it is representative of the flow coming into the region. Figure 5-8 shows the minimum and median annual water yield for these gages. Figures 5-9a through 5-9c show the annual water yield from the beginning of the period of record through 2013 for the five gages. As shown in these figures, the annual yield is highly variable in all locations, but especially in the Rio Puerco and Jemez River, where flows are not moderated by upstream reservoir releases or supplemented with non-native water. The Rio Grande at Otowi flows shown on Figures 5-8 and 5-9a include non-native flows from the San Juan-Chama Project. Though there are several reservoirs that store water supply for Middle Rio Grande users, only two large reservoirs (i.e., storage capacity greater than 5,000 acre-feet, as reported in the New Mexico Water Use by Categories 2010 report [Longworth et al., 2013]) are present in the planning region (Figure 5-7). Cochiti Reservoir’s primary purpose is flood control and the Jemez Canyon Dam is for flood and sediment control; neither are authorized for conservation storage. Table 5-6 summarizes the characteristics of these two reservoirs as well as the upstream reservoirs (Heron, El Vado, and Abiquiu) that provide native and San Juan-Chama Project water to the Middle Rio Grande. As indicated on Table 5-6, El Vado provides water supply storage to the MRGCD and others, and Heron provides storage for the San Juan-Chama project. In addition to these large reservoirs, one smaller reservoir (Galisteo Reservoir on Galisteo Creek) is present in the planning region. Galisteo Reservoir is a flood control reservoir owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and is not authorized for conservation storage. The NMOSE conducts periodic inspections of non-federal dams in New Mexico to assess dam safety issues. Dams that equal or exceed 25 feet in height that impound 15 acre-feet of storage or dams that equal or exceed 6 feet in height and impound at least 50 acre-feet of storage are under the jurisdiction of the State Engineer. These non-federal dams are ranked as being in good, fair, poor, or unsatisfactory condition. Dams with unsatisfactory conditions are those that require immediate or remedial action. Dams identified in recent inspections as being deficient, with high or significant hazard potential, are summarized in Table 5-7. Many of the dams listed on Table 5-7 are flood control dams so don’t affect the water supply balance in the region significantly, but they do represent safety hazards. 5.3 Groundwater Resources Groundwater accounted for about 30 percent of all water diversions in the region in the year 2010 (Longworth et al., 2013). It supplies most of the region’s small drinking water systems and provides back up supply to the ABCWUA when surface water cannot be diverted while at other times significantly augmenting supplies even when ABCWUA is diverting surface water. In 2016, about 70 percent of water demand was provided from the San Juan-Chama Drinking Water Project (DWP) and 30 percent from groundwater (ABCWUA 2016). Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan 2017 88
1,200,000 1,000,000 Jemez River near Jemez, NM 1950 through 2013 La Jara 1,200,000 1,000,000 Rio Grande at Otowi Bridge, NM 1950 through 2013 983,871 Annual Streamflow (acre-feet) 800,000 600,000 400,000 Cuba Annual Streamflow (acre-feet) 800,000 600,000 400,000 433,584 200,000 200,000 16,506 46,334 0 Minimum Median Torreon 0 Minimum Jemez Springs Jemez River Ponderosa Creek Vallecito Median Cochiti Lake Rio Sa do la Zia Reservoir Zia Pueblo Jemez Canyon Reservoir Jemez River Borreg o Canyon Sante Fe River Galisteo Creek Rio Grande S:\PROJECTS\WR12.0165_STATE_WATER_PLAN_2012\GIS\MXDS\FIGURES_2017\MIDDLE_RIO_GRANDE\FIG5-8_STREAMFLOW.MXD 12/21/2016 Annual Streamflow (acre-feet) 1,200,000 1,000,000 800,000 600,000 400,000 200,000 0 Rio Puerco Above Arroyo Chico near Guadalupe, NM 1950 through 2013 Annual Streamflow (acre-feet) 1,200,000 1,000,000 800,000 600,000 400,000 200,000 464 8,398 Minimum 0 N Rio Grande at Albuquerque, NM 1950 through 2013 248,321 Minimum 0 8 16 Miles Median 857,901 Median ada n Ojo del Ca Sandoval Bernalillo Rio Puerco Bernalillo Valencia Los Lunas Belen Rio Grande Explanation Stream gage Stream (dashed where intermittent) Lake City County Water planning region Rio Rancho Albuquerque Placitas Annual Streamflow (acre-feet) Valencia Torrance 1,200,000 1,000,000 800,000 600,000 400,000 200,000 0 Rio Grande at San Felipe, NM 1950 through 2013 398,399 Minimum 946,225 Median Notes: 1. Years with incomplete data were not included in the analysis. 2. Source is USGS, 2014c. MIDDLE RIO GRANDE REGIONAL WATER PLAN 2017 Minimum and Median Yield 1950 through 2013 Figure 5-8
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Table of Contents Executive Summary
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List of Figures 1-1 Location of Mid
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5-12 Leaking Underground Storage Ta
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MCL MCLG MDWCA MRCOG MRGAA MRGCD MR
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Executive Summary The Middle Rio Gr
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Planning Method For this RWP, water
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appropriations are available in the
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channel aggradation. These changes
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In 2014, the U.S. Environmental Pro
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• Bosque and other riparian habit
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1. Introduction The Middle Rio Gran
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The organization of this update fol
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2.1 The New Mexico Interstate Strea
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2.2.1 Identification of Regional St
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Table 2-1. Steering Committee Membe
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Table 2-2. Middle Rio Grande Region
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Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation
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Sierra water planning region. Geogr
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Table 3-1. Summary of Demographic a
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4. Legal Issues 4.1 Relevant Water
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In addition to Tri-State, several c
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Socorro, Valencia, Bernalillo, Sand
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Authority’s application sought to
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equires the NMOSE to conduct hydrol
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3. Allow for the declaration of dom
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provided for another review procedu
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Table 5-13. Landfills in the Middle
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Table 6-1. Total Withdrawals in the
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• Riparian evapotranspiration: So
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to 669,727 acres. Also, during that
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estrictions (i.e., the water is phy
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demand in this sector. The amount o
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6.5.2 Middle Rio Grande Projected W
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Table 6-5 Projected Water Demand, 2
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When the 2004 RWP was developed the
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Table 8-2. Key Collaborative Progra
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Table 8-2. Key Collaborative Progra
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The Middle Rio Grande-Albuquerque R
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New Mexico Environment Department (
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