WSP12355

• File Number: 8021
• Description: Section D General Correspondence-Western States Water Council
• Date: 2/19/1966
• Title: Western States Water Council Meeting Attachment No 9-Water Management in New Mexico
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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of the Middle Ria Grande project in the Flood control Act of

1948. Under this autharity the Corps of Img,ineers and the

Bureau of Reclamation, in a splendid example of interagency

cooperation, have completed more than $60,000,000 worth of flood

and sediment control works, channelization, drainage improvement,

;;nd eradication of nonbeneficial plants. When works now under

construction, including the C',rps of Engineers Cochi ti and

(;,1 isteo flood control reservoirs above Albuquerque, are complet-

ed expenditures will total about $125,000,000.

The state has cooperat~d with the Bureau of R~clamation

and the Hiddle Rio Grande C':,nservancy District in drainage

and water salvage works to supplement the work authorized under

the 11iddle Rio Grande project. The stat.e' s participatian has

b~en financed with incomp. f..r"lll Jann!> grantld t.he state by the

perguson Act of 1898. In the past ten years the state has

contributed about $1. 2 mill ion 00 llars to this work.

The Bureau with state cooperation is continuing its studies

C'f potential water salvage measures on the Hi.o Grande. Our

goal is to salvage the last drop ecanomica11y feasible.

The Bureau af Reclamation hitS estimated t.hat since the

WOrks on the river first began to be effective in about 1951

they have salvaged through 1964, 761,600 acre feet: and when

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