WSP05194

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/2000
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 2000
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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District (MRGCD), with the result that native Rio Grande water was used for river flow
purposes below the San Acacia Diversion Dam. Questions and discussion with the Engineer
Advisers revealed that the total supplemental water quantity reported by Reclamation was
inaccurate, The reported total did not include water resulting from partial draining of the
sediment control pool in Jemez Canyon Reservoir. In addition, Reclamation reported that
additional supplemental water was made available by MRGCD in exchange for approval by
Reclamation of delaying delivery of part ofMRGCD's 1999 contraCt allocation of San Juan-
Chama Project water until after the snowmelt runoff season in 2000. Reclamation reported
that delayed delivery was made of 6,000 acre-feet of water to EI Vado Reservoir and that
Reclamation received one-half of that water for the supplemental water program purposes.
This is inconsistent with Table 4 (San Juan-Chama Water Released /Tom Heron Reservoir) of
Reclamation's draft annual report entitled "2000 Water Accounting Report to the Rio Grande
Compact Commission Engineer Advisers," which shows that all 1999 waivered MRGCD San
Juan-Chama Project water was delivered by the end of April 2000. Reclamation also reported
that they have not acquired sufficient supplemental water in 2001 to satisfy Reclamation's
obligations to pay back water to the MRGCD that was used in 2000 and that the Agreed Order
requires be repaid in 200 I,
Reclamation's draft annual report entitled "2000 Calendar Year Report to the Rio
Grande Compact Commission," provided to the Engineer Advisers on February 27,2001,
does not address the 2000 supplemental water program. The Engineer Advisers requested that
the informiltiori in the presentation handout entitled "Summary of Rio Grande Water
Operations for the Calendar Year 2000" be expanded to include all the extraordinary water
acquisitions and uses by Reclamation in 2000. The Engineer Advisers also requested that
Reclamation modify their draft report "2000 Calendar Year Report to the Rio Grande
Compact Commission" to include complete information regarding the supplemental water
program and Rio Grande water operations in 2000, including the information presented orally
and as a handout at the Engineer Advisers meeting with the federal agencies.

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