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<br /> <br />o <br />(,;) <br />':':) <br />00 <br />~ <br />~ <br /> <br />NEW MEXICO <br /> <br />I NTROOUCTI ON <br /> <br />The Arkansas-White-Red (AWR) Region (WRC No. 11) in New Mexico includes the <br />counties of Colfax, Harding, Mora, Quay, and Union, all of which are in ASA No. 1105. <br />The hydrologic boundaries of the AWR Basin in New Mexico include all of Harding and <br />Union Counties; most of Colfax and Mora Counties (a small area in each of these <br />counties is in the Rio Grande Basin); the eastern part of San Miguel County; the <br />northern part of Curry County; and except for an area in the southwest corner, most of' <br />Quay County. <br /> <br />The Arkansas-White-Red River Basin (hydrologic area) contains 17,722 square <br />miles. This compares to 14,533 square miles within ASA No. 1105 in New Mexico. <br />Figures 1, 2, and 3 submitted for ASA 1105 typify t~:e AWR Basin but obviously omit <br />water and related land resources of 3,189 square mi'les within the basin area. <br /> <br />Most of the streams of this basin are tributaries of the Arkansas River. <br />Principal tributary streams in New Mexico are the Cimarron, North Canadian, and <br />Canadian Rivers. Two small surface drainages in the northern part of Curry County <br />drain to the Red River in Texas. The White River drainage does not reach into <br />New Mexico. <br /> <br />The AWR Basin in New Mexico is bounded on the west by the Sangre de Christo <br />Mountains; on the north by a series of plateaus, mesas. and hills (along the Colorado- <br />New Mexico state line); to the south and southeast by a series of hills, mesas, etc.. <br />that separate the AWR from the Pecos River Basin; and by the Texas-New Mexico state <br />line on the east. The eastern part of the basin consists primarily of the Northern <br />and a part of the Southern High Plains that extend from west Texas into eastern New <br />Mexico. The Northern and Southern High Plains are separated by the Canadian River <br />drainage in Quay County. <br /> <br />Altitudes in the basin range from over 13,000 feet (Sangre de Christo Mountains) <br />to about 4,500 feet in the plains area. The following tabulation is indicative of <br />weather conditions in the basin: <br /> <br />Place - County Elevation Mean Annual Mean Annual <br /> (feet-MSL ) Temp. (0 F) Precipitation (inches) <br />Maxwell Colfax 5,909 48.6 14.19 <br />Raton Colfax 6,379 48.2 14.75 <br />Springer Colfax 5,857 50.8 15.59 <br />Gascon Mora 8,250 44.6 23.20 <br />Tucumcari Quay 4,096 58.2 15.07 <br />Clayton Union 4,969 53.1 14.51 <br /> 28 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />