WSP08182

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1988
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1988
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

c[

>:

r--

,/
:;:1
~.'
~
I

-r'
,. J
H")

COMPACT COMMISSION

RIO GRANDE

COLORADO

:_..;

TEXAS

NEW MEXICO

.:.")

c...~

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

Mareh 3D, 1989

The Honorable William P. Clements, Jr.
Governor of the State of Texas
Austin, Texas

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

Sirs:

The 50th Annual Meeting of the Rio Grande Compact Commission was held in A1amosa,
Colorado on March 3D, 1989.

The Commission reviewed its prior reports and the current reports of the Secretary
relative to streamflow at Compact gaging stations and storage in reservoirs for 1988.
The Commission reaffirmed its previous finding that actual spill of usable water
commenced January 31, 1988. Pursuant to Articles r and VI of the Rio Grande Compact,
no annual credits or debits were computed for 1988 as a result of actual spill of
usable water.

In addition, the Commission found that:

(a) Deliveries of water at the ColoradO_New Mexico state line by Colorado amounted to
184,700 acre-feet in 1988 Bnd the scheduled delivery for the year was 144,000
acre-feet. The decrease in storage in 1988 in reservoirs in Colorado constructed
after 1937 aggregated 14,300 acre-feet.

(b) Deliveries of water into Elephant Butte Reservoir, as measured by the Elephant Butte
Effective Supply, amounted to 685,600 acre-feet in 1988 and the scheduled delivery
for the year was 423,200 acre-feet. The decrease in storage in 1988 in reservoirs
in New Mexico above San Marcial cOnstructed after 1929 aggregated 19B,400 acre-feet.

(c) Releases of usable water in 1988 from Project Storage amounted to 729.600 acre-feet.
Actual spill of usable water from Project Storage aggregated 187,600 acre-feet
in 1988.

(d) Expenses of the administration of the Rio Grsnde Compact were $103,146 in the fiscal
year ending June 3D, 1988. The United States bore $43,400 of this totalj the
balance of $59,746 was borne equally by the three States party to the Compact.

Respectfully,

S. E. Reynol Mexico
..--,

( <~ .JgUt, _
J'esse . r. err C missioner for Texas

for Colorado

I~I