WSP02371

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1970
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1970
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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26

RIO GRANDE COMPACT COMMISSION REPORT

RECORDS OF DELIVERIES AND RELEASES

At the annual rneeting of the Compact Cornmission on
February 18, 1971, the records of deliveries and releases for cal-
endar year 1970 were examined and the computations of debits and
credits based thereon were reviewed. The records and cornputations
as reviewed by the Commission are reproduced on the next three pages.

The delivery of water in the Rio Grande at the Colorado-New
Mexico State line was obtained from record of streamflow near Lobatos,
Colorado; the obligation of Colorado to deliver water at the State line
was computed as prescribed in Article ill. Item C5, the Reduction
of Debits prescribed in Article VI, was computed in accordance with
the Rules and Regulations assuming that the storage retained in Platoro
Reservoir during the winter months was storage of accrued debits.

The delivery of water by New Mexico to Project Storage was
computed from the actual streamflow record and the record of operation
of Elephant Butte Reservoir; the scheduled delivery was cornputed as
prescribed in the Resolution of the Commission adopted at the Tenth
Annual Meeting, and published in this Report. Item NM4, Reduction
of Debits by Evaporation, was computed in accordance with the Rules
and Regulations.

The actual release from Project Storage during the year was
measured at stations below Caballo Dam. The Accrued Departure from
Normal Release is an under-release but is omitted in accordance with a
decision of the Commission at the meeting on Feb. 15, 1968.