WSP01520

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1951
• Title: Thirteenth Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1951
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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stream gaging station equipped with an automatic water stage re-
corder at each of the following points, to-wit:

(a) On the Rio Grande near Del Norte above the principal points
of diversion to the San Luis Valley;

(b) On the Conejos River near Mogote;
(c) On the Los Pinos River near Ortiz;
(d) On the San Antonio River at Ortiz;
(e) On the Conejos River at its mouth near Los Sauces;
(f) On the Rio Grande near Lobatos;
(g) On the Rio Chama below El Vado Reservoir;
(h) On the Rio Grande at Otowi Bridge near San Ild efonso;
(i) On the Rio Grande near San Acacia;
(j) On the Rio Grand e at San Marcial;
(k) On the Rio Grande below Elephant Butte Reservoir;
(1) On the Rio Grande below Caballo Reservoir.

Similar gaging stations shall be maintained and operated below
any other reservoir constructed after 1929, and at such other points
as may be necessary for the securing of records required for the
carrying out of the Compact; and automatic water stage recorders
shall be maintained and operated on each of the reservoirs mentioned
and on all others constructed after 1929.

Such gaging stations shall be equipped, maintained and operated
by the Commission directly or in cooperation with an appropriate Fed-
eral or State agency, and the equipment, method and frequency of
measurement at such stations shall be such as to produce reliable re-
cords at all times.

ARTICLE III

The obligation of Colorado to deliver water in the Rio Grande
at the Colorado-New Mexico State Line, measured at or near Lobatos,
in each calendar year, shall be ten thousand acre-feet less than tee
sum of those quantities set forth in the two following tabulations
of relationship, which correspond to the quantities at the upper in-
d ex stations: