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<br /> <br />San Juan-Chama <br />Water Accounting <br />Albuquerque Area Office <br />October 1996 <br /> <br />The natural inflow into Heron Reservoir during the month of October was computed <br />to be 140 acre-feet (af) as shown in Table 3. There were 550 af net San Juan- <br />Chama (SJ-c) losses. as shown in Table 2. There were 270 af of diversions <br />through Azotea Tunnel this month. <br /> <br />There was a total of 150 af of Natural (RG) released from Heron. of which 140 AF <br />was seepage. There was 13.910 AF of SJ-C water released from Heron. all of which <br />was sent to the City of Albuquerque (the City) in Abiquiu as part of their annual <br />allotment. <br /> <br />There was 1.05 inches of precipitation at Heron Reservoir. which is 75% of the <br />October (running) average of 1.40 inches. The monthly computations for Heron <br />Reservoir are summarized in Tables 1-3. <br /> <br />From El Vado. 1736 AF was released by Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District <br />(MRGCD) to pay back the City in Abiquiu for water borrowed for irrigation. <br /> <br />From Abiquiu. a total of 16.573 AF was released: 15.965 AF loaned to MRGCD to <br />meet irrigation demand and: 608 AF to the City's Jemez Sediment pool. <br /> <br />Total inflow into Nambe Falls Reservoir was computed to be 415 AF. There was no <br />evaporation loss on the reservoir. Table 4 summarizes San Juan-Chama water at <br />Otowi. <br /> <br />Estimated sediment deposition in the San Juan-Chama pools at Abiquiu and Jemez <br />Canyon Reservoirs. and Cochiti Lake are presented in Tables 5A-5C. Storage and <br />evaporation of Rio Grande water in El Va do and Abiquiu Reservoirs are shown in <br />Table 6. <br /> <br />All data are provisional and subject to revision as final data are collected and <br />analyzed. <br />