Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan

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List of Acronyms °F degrees Fahrenheit ABCWUA ac-ft/yr AMAFCA AMO AWRM BBER BLM CERCLA CID COA CSWCD CWA DBS&A DWP DWS EBID EPA EPCWID #1 ESA FY GIS gpcd GWQB ICIP IPCC JRWG JSAI KAFB LQ Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority acre-feet per year Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority Atlantic multidecadal oscillation Active Water Resource Management Bureau of Business and Economic Research Bureau of Land Management Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act Carlsbad Irrigation District City of Albuquerque Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District Clean Water Act Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc. Drinking Water Project Domestic Well Statute Elephant Butte Irrigation District U.S. Environmental Protection Agency El Paso County Water Improvement District Number One Endangered Species Act fiscal year geographic information system gallons per capita per day Ground Water Quality Bureau [New Mexico Environment Department] Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Jemez River Watershed Group John Shomaker & Associates, Inc. Kirtland Air Force Base location quotient Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan 2017 vi
MCL MCLG MDWCA MRCOG MRGAA MRGCD MRGWA MSA MSGP NASS NCDC NEPA NMAC NMBGMR NMDOT NMED NMISC NMOSE NMSA NMSU NMWQCC NOAA NPDES NPL NRCS NWS PCB PDO PDSI PPP PSTB PVACD RCRA RWP SDWA SNOTEL SSPA maximum contaminant level maximum contaminant level goal mutual domestic water consumers association Mid-Region Council of Governments Middle Rio Grande Administrative Area Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly metropolitan statistical area Multi-Sector General Permit National Agricultural Statistics Service National Climatic Data Center National Environmental Policy Act New Mexico Administrative Code New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources New Mexico Department of Transportation New Mexico Environment Department New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission New Mexico Office of the State Engineer New Mexico Statutes Annotated New Mexico State University New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System National Priorities List Natural Resources Conservation Service National Weather Service polychlorinated biphenyl Pacific decadal oscillation Palmer Drought Severity Index project, program, and policy Petroleum Storage Tank Bureau (NMED) Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regional water plan Safe Drinking Water Act snowpack telemetry S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc. Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan 2017 vii
Page 1 and 2: Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Pl
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Executive Summary
Page 5 and 6: List of Figures 1-1 Location of Mid
Page 7: 5-12 Leaking Underground Storage Ta
Page 11 and 12: Executive Summary The Middle Rio Gr
Page 13 and 14: Planning Method For this RWP, water
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Page 17 and 18: channel aggradation. These changes
Page 19 and 20: In 2014, the U.S. Environmental Pro
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Page 23 and 24: 1. Introduction The Middle Rio Gran
Page 25 and 26: The organization of this update fol
Page 27 and 28: 2.1 The New Mexico Interstate Strea
Page 29 and 30: 2.2.1 Identification of Regional St
Page 31 and 32: Table 2-1. Steering Committee Membe
Page 33 and 34: Table 2-2. Middle Rio Grande Region
Page 39 and 40: Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation
Page 41 and 42: Sierra water planning region. Geogr
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Page 45 and 46: 4. Legal Issues 4.1 Relevant Water
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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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As discussed above, the three party
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existing, and future uses). No adju
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• Gather information on domestic
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plan recognizes that water is easil
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• Protect groundwater by preventi
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not adequately consider all of the
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4.2.2 Water Quality Laws 4.2.2.1 Fe
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National Priorities List (NPL). 42
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• The Jicarilla Apache Nation Cod
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• Water users seeking to obtain w
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• The Federal Emergency Managemen
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water balance in the Middle Rio Gra
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Table 5-1. Middle Rio Grande Climat
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Sources: 1. WRCC, 2014 2. NWS, 2005
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Jemez Springs Temperature (°F) 90
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Jemez Springs Precipitation (inches
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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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Tsj Southern Rocky Mountain Colorad
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In order to evaluate changes in wat
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5,025 5,020 351852106344901 Aquifer
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Source: NMED, 2014a and 2014c Note:
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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 5-10. Groundwater Discharge P
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Table 5-11. Superfund Sites in the
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Table 5-12. Leaking Underground Sto
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Table 5-13. Landfills in the Middle
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Runoff, flooding, and debris flows
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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 2-B Summary of Comments on
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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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