WSP10309

• File Number: 8510.100.40
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Title: Analysis of Report of Committee of Engineers to Rio Grande Compact Commissioners dated December 27 1937
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

<:.0
~ooj
"""
Y'~
r:::;
.0

5'. For purpoB6S of study, the Rio Grande River Basin l'llI.S

divided into three seotienB. as followlil:

(a)

The San Luis Valley in Colorado, comprising
'the draRage area of the Rio Grande River
and its tributaries above the Lobatos Station,
near the Colorado-New Menoo statelinlil,

(b) The Middle Rio Grande in. New Mexioo, 'from
Lobatos to the Elephant Butte Reservoir,
including the drainage basins of streams
tribuatry to the river in that ssetion, and

(0) The 1_er seation, between Elephan't Butte
Reservoir and Fort Qui'bnan, inoluding the
Juarez Valley in Mexico.

6. The reoommended deliveries Qf water at the Colorado-NllW

Mexioo stateline are speoified Illnounts varying Moording to the ahaI'M tar
of the oalender yepr, (as to its orig::lno.l water produotion) IiLS indioated.

by the inf'loW' to tho irrigated areas at speoified stations. Twc:l

sohedules are raoOllllllEluded. viII.

A. In Wloordanoe vlith the quantities of water at Del
1,orte. d.ur:rng the Calender Year, deliveries Qt
water aro speoified for the Rio Grande and its
tributarios (exolusive of the CQrlejos River). to
be measured at Lobatos (with Conej.os oenti-ibutions
deduoted).

B. Corresponding to the quantities of water at Mogate,
(during 1.:119 Calender Year) plus the oontributians
of Las Pinos and San Antonio Creeks (durin/!; April
to Ootober) deliveries of water are speoified for
the Cone,ios a.iver. at its l1lOuths# 'to be measured
at the La' Souses stations.

-;..