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San Juan-Chama Water Accounting Albuquerque Area Office May 2000 The natural inflow into Heron Reservoir during the month of May was computed to be 147 acre-feet (AF) as shown in Table 3. There were 2611 AF net San Juan-Chama (SJ-C) losses, as shown in Table 2. There were 20987 AF diverted through Azotea Tunnel this month. There was a total of 345 AF of Natural (RG) released from Heron. There was 10425 AF of SJ-C released in May of which 5605 AF was the City of Santa Fe's delivery to the City of Albuquerque's (City)pool in Abiquiu which the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) leases for supplemental water (USBR lease), 1200 AF of Los Alamos's water was released to the City's (USBR lease) pool in Abiquiu, 1000 AF was release from Espallola to the City (USBR lease) in Abiquiu, 15 AF was release from Twining pool to the City (USBR lease) in Abiquiu, 400 AF was released from Taos to the City (USBR lease) in Abiquiu, 2145 AF was released from Jicarilla's pool to the City (USBR lease) in Abiquiu, 60 AF was released from Red River's pool to the City (USBR lease) in Abiquiu. There were no SJ-C releases from storage in El Vado. There were 27214 AF of SJ-C water released from Abiquiu, of which 555 AF was MRGCD's release for irrigation demand, 24648 AF was released from the City (USBR lease) for supplemental irrigation water in the middle valley, 1757 AF was released for Santa Fe ; 1187 AF to the City (USBR lease), 570 AF to Otowi ( 550 AF below, 20 AF above, letter dated 4/27/2000). 89 AF was release for the City, 86 AF below Otowi, 3 AF above (letter dated 4/27/2000). 26 AF was released for Los Lunas, the total for depletions below Otowi (letter dated 4/27/2000).106 AF was released for Bernalillo for depletions below Otowi (letter dated 4/27/2000) . 35 AF was released from Twining's pool to the City (USBR lease). There was 0.26 inches of precipitation at Heron Reservoir, which is 17% of the May running average of 1.52 inches. The monthly computations for Heron Reservoir are summarized in Tables 1-3. Total inflow into Nambe Falls Reservoir was computed to be 802 AF. There were 23 AF of losses on the reservoir. Table 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 Vado and Abiquiu Reservoirs are shown in Table 6. All data are provisional and subject to revision as final data are collected and analyzed.