WSP03154

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1950
• Title: Twelfth Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1950
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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RECORDS OF DELIVERIES AND RELEASES

At the Annual Meeting of the Compact Commission in February
of each year, the records of deliveries and releases for the
year just ended are examined and the computations of debits and
credits based thereon are reviewed and formally adopted. The
records and computations for 1950 as adopted 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 records of stream flow
adjusted in accordance with the provisions of Article III of the
Compact: the obligation of Colorado to deliver water at the state
line was computed as prescribed in Article III. The Reduction
of Credits, item C6, prescribed in Article VI, was computed in
accordance with the Rules and Regulations.

The delivery of water by New Mexico to Project Storage was
computed from actual stream flow record and record of operation
of Elephant Butte Reservoir and was adjusted as prescribed in
Article IV of the Compact; the scheduled delivery was computed
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, is in accordance with the
provisions of the last paragraph of Article VI of the Compact
and by the Rules and Regulations.

The actual release from Project Storage during the year was
measured at stations below Caballo Dam: the Actual Net Evaporation
.Loss and Evaporation Loss if No Departure were computed as provided
in Article' VI of the Compact and by the Rules and Regulations.