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San Juan-Chama Water Accounting Albuquerque Area Office July 1996 The natural inflow into Heron Reservoir during the month of July was computed to be 1840 acre-feet (af) as shown in Table 3. There were 1370 af net San Juan- Chama (SJ-C) losses. .as shown in Table 2. There were 2620 af of diversions through Azotea Tunnel this month. There was a total of 1840 af of Natural (RG) released from Heron. of which 150 AF was seepage. There was 19460 AF of SJ-C water released from Heron. ' There was 2.65 inches of precipitation at Heron Reservoir. which is 152% of the July (running) average of 1. 74 inches. The monthly computations for Heron Reservoir are summarized in Tables 1-3. From El Vado. 25.143 AF was released by Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) to pay back the City of Albuquerque (City) in Abiquiu for water borrowed for irrigation. A total of 8330 AF inflow of uncontracted 1996 allocation was transferred from Heron to MRGCD in El Va do leaving 3160 AF remaining uncontracted water. A total of 7723 AF inflow of City water was sent to MRGCD in El Vado. Likewise. 1200 AF from DOE. 1000 AF from Espanola. 15 AF from Twining. 400 AF from Taos. 358 AF from Los Lunas. and 432 AF from Belen. allocations in Heron. were received by MRGCD in El Vado. From Abiquiu. a total of 30.648 AF was released: Of that total. from the City 29.508 AF was loaned to MRGCD and 965 AF was sent to Jemez Recreation pool. From the City of Santa Fe. 175 AF was delivered. to offset pumping depletions above and below Otowi as follows: By SEO Letter dated June 27. 1996. a release was made on July 5. of 53 AF (3 AF above Otowi and 50 below): By Letter dated July 8. 1996. 61 AF was released July 15 (3 above and 58 below): By Letter dated July 23. 1996. 61 AF was released July 30 (3 above and 58 below). A total of 24.302 AF of SJ-C water flowed into Abiquiu as payback of borrowed water by MRGCD. Total inflow into Nambe Falls Reservoir was computed to be 631 AF. Evaporation loss on the reservoir was 13 AF. Table 4 summarizes San Juan-Chama water at Otowi. Estimated sediment deposition in the San Juan-Chama pools at Abiquiu and Jemez Canyon Reservoirs. and Cochiti Lake are presented in Tables 5A-5C. Storage and evaporation of Rio Grande water in El Vado and Abiquiu Reservoirs are shown in Table 6. All data are provisional and subject to revision as flnal data are red lpct,'rj 1n~ analyzed.