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<br />Grande Project also provides a significant and increasing water supply to the City of EI Paso. In <br />addition, drainage and waste water from EPCWID are delivered to more than 15,000 acres in <br />the Hudspeth County Conservation and Reclamation District No. 1 (HCCRD) in Hudspeth <br />County, Texas under a Warren Act Contract. HCCRD is located in Hudspeth County in the <br />lower portion of the EI Paso Valley. <br /> <br />The major cities in the project area are Las Cruces in New Mexico and EI Paso in Texas, <br />which respectively had populations of 62,100 and 515,300 in 1990. Other smaller cities and <br />towns in New Mexico (and their 1990 populations) include Truth or Consequences (6,200), <br />Williamsburg (500), Placitas (1,600), Hatch (1,100), Dona Ana (1,200), Fairacres (3,900), <br />Mesilla (2,000), and Anthony (5,200). Other smaller cities and towns in Texas include Canutillo <br />(4,400), Socorro (23,000), San Elizario (4,400), Clint (1,000), Fabens (5,600), and Fort Hancock <br />(1,100). Most, if not all, the cities and towns in the project area depend on ground water to <br />some extent for their water supplies. <br /> <br />The climate in the Rio Grande Project area can be classified as arid with a lot of <br />sunshine and low relative humidity. At New Mexico State UniversitfJ, which is adjacent to Las <br />Cruces and near the center of the project area, mean temperatures range from about 420F in <br />January to 800F in July. Typical daily maximums and minimums are 57 and 260F in January, <br />and 94 and 650F in July. The southern portion of the project area tends to be 2 to 40F warmer <br />than the northern portion. The frost-free period ranges from about 200 days in the Rincon Valley <br />to about 250 days in the EI Paso Valley. Precipitation occurs mainly as rain with annual <br />accumulations averaging about 9 inches but showing considerable variation from one year to <br />the next. At New Mexico State University, for example, the precipitation varied from 3.44 inches <br />in 1970 to 19.60 inches in 1941. On the average, about one-half of the total accumulation <br />occurs during July, August, and September, as the result of brief but intense thunderstorms. <br />Wind~ are usually strongest during March, April and May. Appendix A contains summaries of <br />climatic data for the selected weather stations in the project area. <br /> <br />2J New Mexico State Agriculture College became New Mexico State University in 1959. The records for <br />this weather station go back to 1891. <br /> <br />(I ..... . (~(, ! <br />'-' '... \J;,Ji ox <br /> <br />2-3 <br />