WSP05004

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1981
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1981
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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CONTENTS

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Rio Grande compact...................................................... 2

Forty-third Annual Report to Governors........ .... ...................... 1

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Records of Deliveries and Release................. ...................... 26

Rules and RegUlatiOns................................................... 19

Resolution of the Commission....................................... 15

Deliveries by Colorado at State line............................... 27
Deliveries by New Mexico at Elephant Butte......................... 28
Release and Spill from Project Storage............................. 29

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Cost of Operation and Budget............................................ 30

Acknowledgments.......................... .............. ... ........ ...... 31

Streamflow. .... ..................................................... .... 33-43

Accuracy of ReCOrds..................................................... 32

Rio Grande near Del Norte, COlorado................................ 33
Conejos River below Platoro Reservoir, COlorado.................... 33
Conejos River near Mogote, COlorado................................ 34
San Antonio River at Ortiz, COlorado............................... 34
Los Pinos River near Ortiz, COlorado. .............................. 35
Conejos River near Lasauses, COlorado.............................. 35
Rio Grande near Lobatos, COlorado.................................. 36
Willow Creek above Heron Reservoir, near Los Ojos, New Mexico...... 36
Horse Lake Creek above Heron Reservoir. near Los Ojos, New Mexico.. 37
Willow Creek below Heron Dam, New Mexico........................... 37
Rio Chama below El Vado Dam, New Mexico.. .......................... 38
Rio Chama below Abiguiu Dam, New Mexico............................ 38
Rio Nambe below Nambe Falls Dam, near Nambe, New Mexico............ 39
Rio Grande at Otowi Bridge, near San Ildefonso, New Mexico......... 39
Santa Fe River near Santa Fe, New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . 40
Rio Grande below Cochiti Dam, New Mexico........................... 40
Galisteo Creek below Galisteo Dam, New Mexico...................... 41
Jemez River below Jemez Canyon Dam, New Mexico..................... 41
Rio Grande below Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico.................... 42
Rio Grande below Caballo Dam, New MeXico........................... 42
Bonito ditch below Caballo Dam, New Mexico......................... 43

Evaporation and preciPitation........................................... 52,53

Transmountain Diversions................................................ 51

Storage in ReSerVoirs................................................... 44-50

ILLUSTRATIONS

Map, Rio Grande Basin above Bernalillo, New Mexico...................... 54,55

Map, Rio Grande Basin above Ft. QUitman, Texas....................Frontispiece