WSP05143

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1994
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1994
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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R,O GRANDE COMPACT COMMISSION

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COLORADO

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NEW MEXICO

The Honorable Roy Romer
Governor of the State of Colorado
Denver, Colorado

March 23. 1995

The Honorable Gary Johnson
Govemor of the State of New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Honorable George Bush, Jr.
Govemor of the State of Texas
Austin, Texas

Honorable Governors:

The 56th Annual Meeting of the Rio Grande Compact Commission was held in Alarnosa, Colorado, on
March 23, 1995.

The Commission reviewed its prior reports and the current reports of the Secretary relative to streamflow
at Co/Tl)act gaging stations and storage in reservoirs in t 994. The Commission found that:

(a)

Deliveries of water at the Colorado - New Mexico state line by Colorado amounted to 286,600 acre-
feet in 1994 and the scheduled delivery for the year was 2n,600 acre-feet. The accrued credit of
Colorado Was 44,200 acre-feet on January " 1995. The decrease in storage in 1994 in reservoirs in
Colorado lXlnstructed after 1937 aggregated 1,200 acre-feet.

(b)

Deliveries of water into Elephant Butte Reservoir by New Mexico, as measured by the Elephant Butte
Effective Supply, amounted to 950,300 acre-feet in 1994 and the scheduled delivery for the year was
B34,600acre-feet. The accrued credit of New MexilXl was 106,900 acre-feet on January " 1995. The
decrease in storage in 1994 in reservoirs in New Mexico above San Marcial constructed after 1929
aggregated 31,400 acre-feet.

(c) Releases of usable water in 1994 from Project Storage amounted to 884,100 acre.feet. The accrued
departure from normal release on January " 1995, was zero. Actual spill of credil water from Project
Storage amounted to 10,000 acre-feel in 1994.

The Commission reviewed the lXlst of operation and found that the expenses of Ihe administration of Ihe
Rio Grande Compact were $126,727 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1994. The United States bore
$39,086 of this total; the balance of $87,641 was bome equally by the three States party 10 Ihe Compact.

Respectfully,

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Harold D. Simpson, Commissioner for Colorado

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