WSP05616

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1997
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1997
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RIO GRANDE COMPACT

DISCHARGE OF RIO GRANDE EXCLUSIVE OF CONEJOS RIVER--Con.
QUantities In thousands of acre feet

Rio Grande at Lobatos less
Rio Grande at Del Norte (3) Conejos at Mouths (4)

650 1 82
700 , 204
750 229
800 257
850 292
900 335
950 380
1,000 430
1,100 540
1,200 640
1.300 740
1 ,400 840

Intermediate quantities shall be computed by proportional parts.

(3) Rio Grande at Del Norte is the recorded flow of the Rio Grande at the U.S.G.S.
gaging station near Del Norte during the calendar year (measured above all principal points
of diversion to San Luis Valley) corrected for the operation of reservoirs conslrucled after
1937.

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(4) Rio Grande at Lobatos less Conejos at Mouths Is the total flow of the Rio
Grande at the U.S.G.S. gaging station near Lobatos. less the discharge of ConeJos River at
Its Mouths, during the calendar year,

The application of these schedules shall be subject to the prOvisions hereinafter
set forth and appropriate adjustments shall be made for (a) any change In location of gaging
stations; (b) any new or Increased depletion of the runoff above Inflow Index gaging stations;
and (c) any transmountaln diversions Into the drainage basin of the Rio Grande above Loba-
tos.

In event any works are constructed after 1937 for the purpose of delivering water
Into the Rio Grande from the ClOSed Basin, Colorado shall not be credited with the amount
of such water delivered, unless the proportion of sodium Ions shall be less than forty-five
percent of the total positive Ions In that water when the total dissolVed solids In such water
exceeds three hundred fifty parts per million.

ARTICLE IV

The obligation of New Mexico to deliver water In the Rio Grande at San Marcial,
during each calendar year, exclusive of the months of July, August. and September. shall be
that quantity set forth In the following tabulation of relationship. which corresponds to the
quantity at the upper Index station:

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