WSP04944

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1949
• Title: Eleventh Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1949
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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\~ATER SUPPLY

The
areas of
run-off,

very large a~:.cum.ulation of snow in the mountainous headwat.er
the Rio Grande and tributaries resulted in an larger than normal
the tctal discharge approximating thet of 1948.

The year was notable for the ohange from a wet. winter and spring
to a dr:' f'all and 6E:.rly winter particularly in New Mexico where the pre-
cipitation was below nOrIT.al from August to December.

Acouracy of Records

The Rulee end Regulations of the Commission state t~at the equip-
ment, method and frequency of ~easurements at each gaging station shall
be sufficient to obtain records at least equal in accuracy to those class-
ified as "good" by the U. S. Geological Survey. 'trithin the physical
limitations of stream gaging the agencies obtaining records at Compact.
gabing stations rove complied with these regulations.

Each station description includes a statement in regard to the acc.
uracy of the records. "Excellent" indicates that" in general, the daily
records are accurate within 5 peroent; "good", within 10 per cent; "fair",
within 15 per cent; "poor", 16 or zrea.ter per cent. These standards of
accurecy are tlce seme as those followed by the U. S. Geological Survey.

Acknowledgements.

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TIater supply data contained in the following pages of this report
have been supplied by federal and State agencies, and by severel indivi-
duals .

Th~ office of the state Eneineer of Colorado furnished records of
discharge for the fo110Ydng:

Rio Grende near Del Worte, Colorado.
Rio Grande near Lobato8. Colorado.
Conejos River near ~.!ogote, Colorado.
Conejos River nenr Los Sauces, Colorado.
San Antonio River at Ortiz, Co10redo.
Los Pinos River neRr Ortiz, Colorado.

Reoords of .torage in Troutvale Reservoir ro. 2, Squaw Lake end Fuchs
Reservoirs were supplied by the Colorado Special Deputy State ZnGinecr at
Uonte Vista, Colorado with the cooperation of the respective own~rs viz:
Earl Brown, Craton Sanderson and Fred Fuchs.

. Records of Transmountain Diversions were supplied b:,f the Colorudo
Special Deputy state 5ngineer at Monte Vista, Colorado vnth thA cooperation
of the owners, viz: Craton Sanderson, the Underwooc. Estate, George .'1.nd
IIer1ey Fuchs, Leon Raber end Frank Lohr.

The U. S. Geologjcal SurV'3Y in coo~:,arntion with the Ne',.... ~'.f8xioo Inter-
st~te streams Commission furnished the follmrlng records;

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