Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan

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4. Legal Issues 4.1 Relevant Water Law 4.1.1 State of New Mexico Law The 2004 RWP, and supporting documents H-5 and H-6 to the 2004 RWP, includes a very comprehensive discussion of water law applicable to the region. However, since the accepted regional water plan for the Middle Rio Grande Water Planning Region was published in 2004, there have been significant changes in New Mexico water law through case law, statutes, and regulations. These changes address statewide issues including, but not limited to, domestic well permitting, the State Engineer’s authority to regulate water rights, administrative and legal review of water rights matters, use of settlements to allocate water resources, the rights appurtenant to a water right, and acequia water rights. New law has also been enacted to address water project financing and establish a new strategic water reserve. These general state law changes are addressed by topic area below. State law more specific to the Middle Rio Grande region is discussed in Section 4.1.2. 4.1.1.1 Regulatory Powers of the NMOSE Several cases have addressed the regulatory powers of the NMOSE. In 2003, the New Mexico Legislature enacted NMSA 1978, § 72-2-9.1, relating to the administration of water rights by priority date. The legislature recognized that “the adjudication process is slow, the need for water administration is urgent, compliance with interstate compacts is imperative and the state engineer has authority to administer water allocations in accordance with the water right priorities recorded with or declared or otherwise available to the state engineer.” Section 72-2- 9.1(A)). The statute authorized the State Engineer to adopt rules for priority administration in a manner that does not interfere with future or pending adjudications, creates no impairment of water rights other than what is required to enforce priorities, and creates no increased depletions. Based on Section 72-2-9.1, the State Engineer promulgated the Active Water Resource Management (AWRM) regulations in December 2004. The regulation’s stated purpose is to establish the framework for the State Engineer “to carry out his responsibility to supervise the physical distribution of water to protect senior water right owners, to assure compliance with interstate stream compacts and to prevent waste by administration of water rights.” 19.25. 13.6 NMAC. In order to carry out this purpose, the AWRM regulations provide the framework for the promulgation of specific water master district rules and regulations. No district-specific AWRM regulations have been promulgated in the Middle Rio Grande region at the time of writing. The general AWRM regulations set forth the duties of a water master to administer water rights in the specific district under the water master’s control. Before the water master can take steps to Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan 2017 23
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Executive Summary
Page 5 and 6: List of Figures 1-1 Location of Mid
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Page 11 and 12: Executive Summary The Middle Rio Gr
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Page 23 and 24: 1. Introduction The Middle Rio Gran
Page 25 and 26: The organization of this update fol
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Page 87 and 88: Table 5-1. Middle Rio Grande Climat
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drought monitoring systems, and it
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Climate Division 5 14 12 10 8 6 4 2
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expected. To assess climate trends
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Rio Chama La Jara JEMEZ RIVER NEAR
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Table 5-4a. USGS Stream Gage Statio
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Table 5-4a. USGS Stream Gage Statio
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Table 5-4b. USGS Stream Gage Annual
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Table 5-5. USGS Stream Gage Average
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1,200,000 1,000,000 Jemez River nea
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Rio Grande at Albuquerque, NM 2,000
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Table 5-6. Reservoirs and Lakes (gr
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Table 5-7. Dams with Dam Safety Def
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Table 5-8. Total Maximum Daily Load
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Table 5-9. Municipal and Industrial
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Table 5-11. Superfund Sites in the
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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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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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• 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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New Mexico Environment Department (
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