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San Juan-Chama Water Accounting Albuquerque Area Office August 2000 The natural inflow into Heron Reservoir during the month of August was computed to be 142 acre-feet (AF) as shown in Table 3. There were 2175 AF net San Juan- Chama (SJ-C) losses, as shown in Table 2. There were 229 AF diverted through Azotea Tunnel this month. There was a total of 142 AF of Natural (RG) released from Heron. There was 13907 AF of SJ-C released in August of which 12478 AF was from the City of Albuquerque (City) for down stream use by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD), 1429 AF was released by MRGCD for supplemental irrigation water in the middle valley. There was a total of 19500 AF released from EI Vado, of which the total was by MRGCD for irrigation needs downstream. There were 24843 AF of SJ-C water released from storage in Abiquiu, of which the total was fro~ the City (USBR lease) for supplemental irrigation water in the middle valley. There was 0.96 inches of precipitation at August running average of 2.70 inches. Reservoir are summarized in Tables 1-3. Heron Reservoir, which is 36% of the The monthly computations for Heron Total inflow into Nambe Falls Reservoir was computed to be 278 AF. There were _ 0.4 AF of losses on the reservoir. T~ble 4 summarizes San Juan-Chama water at Otowi. , & ~ Estimated sediment deposition in the san Juan-Chama pools at Abiquiu and Jemez Canyon Reservoirs, and Cochiti Lake are presented in Tables 5A-5C. Storage and evaporation of Rio Grande water in El Vadoand Abiquiu Reservoirs are shown in Table 6. , ~ All data are provisional and subject to revision as final data are collected and analyzed. ~ ~ , k r ~ W ~ ~ M ~ I~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ .8 ~. ~. ~ 0;