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<br /> <br />San Juan-Chama <br />Water Accounting <br />Albuquerque Area Office <br />August 1997 <br /> <br />The natural inflow into Heron Reservoir during the month of August was computed <br />to be 551 acre,feet (AF) as shown in Table 3. There were 1016 AF net San Juan- <br />Chama (SJ-C) losses, as shown in Table 2. There were 9108 AF of diversions <br />through Azotea Tunnel this month. <br /> <br />There was a total of 548 AF of Natural (RG) released from Heron, of which 151 AF <br />was seepage. There were 11489 AF of SJ-C water released from Heron, of which the <br />total was sent to the City of Albuquerque (the City) in Abiquiu, this is part of <br />the City's 1997 allocation. <br /> <br />There was 2.18 inches of precipitation at <br />August (running) average of 2.70 inches. <br />Reservoir are summarized in Tables 1-3. <br /> <br />Heron Reservoir, which is 81% of the <br />The monthly computations for Heron <br /> <br />From El Vado, a total of 397 AF was released from the Middle Rio Grande <br />Conservancy District's (MRGCD) pool as payback to the City in Abiquiu. <br /> <br />From Abiquiu, a total of 2099 AF was released: of which the total was borrowed <br />from the City by MRGCD for irrigation. <br /> <br />Total inflow into Nambe Falls Reservoir was computed to be 1119 AF. Evaporation <br />loss on the reservoir was 5 AF. Table 4 summarizes San Juan-Chama water at Otowi. <br /> <br />Estimated sediment deposition in the San Juan-Chama pools at Abiquiu and Jemez <br />Canyon Reservoirs, and Cochiti Lake are presented in Tables 5A-5C. Storage and <br />evaporation of Rio Grande water in E1 Vado and Abiquiu Reservoirs are shown in <br />Table 6. <br /> <br />All data are provisional and subject to revision as final data are collected and <br />analyzed. <br />