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<br />.. '" "'O^ <br />OU.lOO:: <br /> <br />about 38,000 acre-feet of water annually from wells drilled into <br />the Rio Grande aquifer, which implies a right to deplete the <br />flow of the river by about 19,000 acre-feet annually, At that <br /> <br />.::,,~ <br />;~}':i:7i <br />''if<fi <br /> <br />time the City was using about 31,000 acre~feet annually, By <br /> <br />1982 the City's withdrawals amounted to about 91,000 acre-feet, <br /> <br />The difference between the 1956 right of 38,000 acre-feet and <br /> <br />the 1982 withdrawal of 91,000 acre-feet was acquired under <br /> <br />permits from the State Engineer conditioned so that when the <br /> <br />effects of the withdrawals on the river exceeded the 50% of the <br /> <br />withdrawal returned to the' river from the municipal sewage <br />treatment plant, the City would release to the river San <br /> <br />Juan-Chama Project water for which it has contracted or retire <br />irrigation rights to the flows of the Rio Grande in amounts <br />sufficient to equal that difference, <br /> <br /><-.:~~ <br />~{~$ <br /> <br />Current estimates indicate that by 1995 Albuquerque will be <br /> <br />withdrawing about 139,000 acre-feet ~nnually, which will cause a <br />total gross depletion of surface flows in the amount of about <br />92,400 acre-feet annually, The City's net depletion to the <br /> <br />river (after consideration of 69,400 acre-feet of direct return <br />flow to the river from it sewage treatment plant) would amount <br /> <br />to nearly 23,000 acre-feet, Vested City depletion rights in <br /> <br />that year amount to 18,700 acre-feet, indicating the need to <br /> <br />release about 4,300 acre-feet of San Juan-Chama water to offset <br /> <br />the depletion to the Rio Grande resulting from its pumpage, <br />Release of the full amount of 48,200 acre-feet per year of San <br /> <br />Juan-Chama water for which the City has contracted will not be <br /> <br />~:{~%Z~9 <br /> <br />8 <br />