Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan

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Rio Puerco above Arroyo Chico near Guadalupe, NM 35,000 30,000 Note: One year with incomplete data (2013) has been omitted. Annual Streamflow (acre-feet) 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 P:\_ NM15-203\RWPs_2016\12_MRG\Figures\Fig5-09c_Rio Puerco.docx 12/20/16 2010 2013 MIDDLE RIO GRANDE REGIONAL WATER PLAN 2017 Annual Streamflow for Selected Gaging Station on the Rio Puerco Figure 5-9c
Table 5-6. Reservoirs and Lakes (greater than 5,000 acre-feet) in and Supplying the Middle Rio Grande Water Planning Region River Reservoir Rio Arriba County a Willow Creek/ Heron Dam Rio Chama Primary Purpose Irrigation M&I (storage for SJCP) Operator Date Completed Total Authorized Conservation Storage Capacity (acre-feet) Surface Area b (acres) Dam Height (feet) Dam Length (feet) Bureau of Reclamation 1970 401,000 5,901 269 1,220 Rio Chama El Vado Reservoir Irrigation (for Bureau of Reclamation 1934 180,000 3,100 230 1,326 MRGCD) Abiquiu Dam Flood control U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1963 200,000 4,224 354 1,800 Sandoval County Rio Grande Cochiti Lake Flood control U.S. Army Corp of Engineers 1975 50,000 c 1,200 251 29,000 Recreation Jemez River Jemez Canyon Reservoir (DRY) Flood control U.S. Army Corp of Engineers 1953 0 0 149 870 Sources: USACE, 1999 a Reservoirs are upstream of Middle Rio Grande region, but are included because of their relevance to the region. b Surface area at maximum authorized conservation storage. c Authorized Cochiti storage is for a permanent recreation pool of 1,200 surface acres. There is no conservation storage authorized for Cochiti Lake. M&I = Municipal and industrial SJCP = San Juan-Chama Project MRGCD = Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan 2017 93
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Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Pl
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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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Source: NMOSE, 2014a and 2014c La J
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4.1.3 Federal Water Laws The law of
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• The minimum annual yield for ke
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Table 6-1. Total Withdrawals in the
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• Riparian evapotranspiration: So
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The Arrowhead Center at NMSU analyz
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• The continued presence of Sandi
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to 669,727 acres. Also, during that
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For this regional water plan update
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Table 6-4. 2010 Water Withdrawals f
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Table 6-4 2010 Water Withdrawals fo
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• Consumptive use occurs when wat
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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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Within Bernalillo County, the high
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• Priority for Continued Implemen
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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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Bartolino, James R. and James C. Co
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Hawley, J.W. 1986. Physiographic pr
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The Middle Rio Grande-Albuquerque R
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New Mexico Environment Department (
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S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc.
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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). 2014
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Middle Rio Grande Region 12 RWP Mas
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Appendix 6-A List of Individuals In
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Appendix 6-B Projected Population G
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Appendix 8-A Review of 2004 Strateg
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Regional Water Planning Update Proj
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Regional Water Planning Update Infr
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