WSP07054

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1986
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1986
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RIO GRANDE COMPACT COMMISSION

COLORADO

NEW MEXICO

TEXAS

The Honorable Garrey Carruthers
Governor of the State of New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico

April 2, 1987

The Honorable William
Governor of the State
Austin, Texas

P. Clements, Jr.
of Texas

The Honorable Roy Romer
Governor of the State of Colorado
Denver, Colorado

Sirs:

The 46th Annual Meeting of the Rio Grande Compact Commission was held in El Paso,
Texas on April 2, 1987.

The Commission reviewed its prior reports and the current reports of the Secretary
relative to streamflow at Compact gaging stations and storage in reservoirs. The
Commission found that actual spill of usable water commenced March 3, 1986. No annual
credits or debits were computed for 1966 pursuant to Articles I and VI of the Rio Grande
Compact.

(a)

In addition, the Conunission found that:

Deliveries
to 604,200
acre-feet.
after 1937

of water at the COloradO-New Mexico state line by Colorado amounted
acre-feet in 1986 and the scheduled delivery for the year was 714,100
The gain in storage in 1966 in reservoirs in Colorado constructed
aggregated 500 acre-feet.

(b)

Deliveries of water into Elephant Butte Reservoir, as measured by the Elephant
Butte Effective SUPply, amounted to 1,569,000 acre-feet in 1966 and the scheduled
delivery for the year was 1,400,900 acre-feet. The decrease in storage in 1966
in reservoirs in New Mexico above San Marcial constructed after 1929 aggregated
151,600 acre-feet.

(c)

Releases of usable water in 1986 from Project Storage amounted to 906,100 acre-feet.
Actual spill of usable Water from Project Storage aggregated 470,600 acre-feet in
1966, Subsequent to the OCcurrence of actual spill. Spill of flood water entering
Caballo Reservoir from tributaries below Elephant Butte Reservoir aggregated
17,900 acre-feet in 1986.

Cd)

Expenses 'of the administration of the Rio Grande Compact were
year ending June 30, 1986. The United States bore $44,670 of
of $61,279 Was borne equally by the three States party to the

the fiscal
the balance

$105,949 in
this total;
Compact.

Respectfully,

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Dan~e son,

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