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<br /> <br />San Juan-Chama <br />Water Accounting <br />Albuquerque Area Office <br />May 1997 <br /> <br />The natural inflow into Heron Reservoir during the month of May was computed to be 1219 <br />acre-feet (AF) as shown in Table 3. There were 950 AF net San Juan-Chama (SJ-C) losses, <br />as shown in Table 2. There were 43720 AF of diversions through Azotea Tunnel this month. <br /> <br />There was a total of 1402 AF of Natural (RG) released from Heron, of which 133 AF was <br />seepage. There was no SJ-C water released from Heron. <br /> <br />There was 2.05 inches of precipitation at Heron Reservoir, which is 135% of the May <br />(running) average of 1.52 inches, The monthly computations for Heron Reservoir are <br />summarized in Tables 1-3. <br /> <br />From El Vado, 556 AF was released by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCDl to <br />the City of Albuquerque (City) in Abiquiu, this was Espanola water temporarily stored in <br />El Vado. <br /> <br />A total of 2210 AF of SJ-C water flowed into the City's pool in Abiquiu Reservoir: 98 AF <br />was internally transferred from the City of Santa Fe's pool to the City's pool as payback <br />of water borrowed on 10/24/96. <br /> <br />Total inflow into Nambe Falls Reservoir was computed to be 2667 AF. There was 8 AF of <br />evaporation loss on the reservoir. Table 4 summarizes San Juan-Chama water at Otowi, <br /> <br />Estimated sediment deposition in the San Juan-Chama pools at Abiquiu and Jemez Canyon <br />Reservoirs, and Cochiti lake are presented in Tables 5A-5C. Storage and evaporation of Rio <br />Grande water in E1 Vado and Abiquiu Reservoirs are shown in Table 6. <br /> <br />All data are provisional and subject to revision as final data are collected and analyzed, <br />