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. . . recreational pool. An accounting procedure was developed in 1987 to address this and is presented on Table 9 (page 9). The delivery of SJ-C water to the recreation pool is based on maintaining the allowable surface acres as illustrated in Column 7. As the wetlands area is reduced by evaporation, additional surface acreage becomes available in the main pool allowing for further deliveries of SJ-C water. Losses from the pool are accounted and replaced as required to maintain the allowable surface acreage. The SJ-C pool is adjusted monthly to reflect losses to the allowable surface acreage due to sediment deposition within the recreation pool area. The staff gages within the wetlands area were disturbed by icing of the water surface so estimates to the nearest tenth were performed periodically and the surface area was determined as shown in Columns 5 and 6. SJ-C deliveries were performed as shown in Column 10 resulting in a year end under delivery of 990 AF as shown in Column 9. Most of this requirement will be met prior to the spring runoff of 1993. As discussed in the second paragraph of the Elephant Butte Reservoir operations and the second paragraph of the Jemez Canyon Reservoir operations, two blocks of the City of Albuquerque's SJ-C water were being moved from Abiquiu Reservoir to Elephant Butte & Jemez Canyon Reservoirs from mid-March to early April. However r due to the variance issued by the Rio Grande Compact commissioners to limit releases from Cochiti Reservoir because of bridge work in the channel below, the blocks of SJ-C water were temporarily held in Cochiti until all natural storage could be released. Table 9 (page 9), Column 10 indicates the delivery of those blocks in March & April, and the release of those blocks in May & June. The Cochiti Reservoir summary is shown on Table 11B (page 12). Jemez Canvon Reservoir Jemez Canyon Dam and Reservoir is a u.s. corps of Engineers facility. Arrangements were made to replace sediment pool evaporative losses during 1992. 5,500 AF (less 69 AF of transportation losses, and 49 AF of Cochiti Res~voir evaporative losses) was replaced in Jemez Canyon Reservoir due to sediment deposition and evaporative losses since 1991 with the City of Albuquerque's SJ-C water in Abiquiu Reservoir. This I water is provided by a contract between the City and the New Mexico! Interstate stream Commission dated February 21, 1986. The water was! moved in two separate blocks into Jemez Canyon Reservoir by exchange. i The first block of SJ-C water was 4,100 AF which was released from Abiquiu Reservoir in April. It suffered 51 AF of transportation losses. However, it was temporarily held in Cochiti Reservoir for 30 days due to a variance from the Rio Grande compact Commissioners to bypass no more than 1,100 ft /s of the natural inflow to Cochiti to iv