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The Rio Grande Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation irrigation, hydroelectricity, flood control, and interbasin water transfer project serving the upper Rio Grande basin in the southwestern United States. The project irrigates 193,000 acres (780 km 2) along the river in the states of New Mexico and Texas. [1]
The Rio Grande Compact Commission, located in El Paso, Texas, administers the Rio Grande Compact. An employee of the USGS New Mexico Water Science Center serves as Secretary to the Compact. The principal duty of the Secretary is to compile streamflow and storage data used in the annual accounting computations performed by the commission's ...
Rehabilitation of these dams, and construction of the Cochiti Dam were undertaken by the Middle Rio Grande Project. [1] The San Juan–Chama Project brings water to the Rio Grande basin from the Colorado River Basin , building the Heron Dam to store some of the water, with an expansion of the El Vado Dam storing some of the remainder.
The Rio Grande forms in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado before flowing south through New Mexico to the Texas border. By the turn of the 20th century, disputes over Rio Grande water were brewing ...
The 1938 Rio Grande Compact provided for the creation of a compact commission, the creation of gaging stations along the river to ensure flow amounts by Colorado to New Mexico at the state line and by New Mexico to Elephant Butte Reservoir, the water once there would fall under the regulation of the Rio Grande Project which would guarantee ...
May 10—The federal government will invest $60 million in drought resiliency in the Rio Grande Basin, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced Friday. The millions come from the 2022 ...
This water was to come from water previously diverted into the Rio Grande system by Public Law 87-843 of 1962 [8] from water in the Colorado River basin via the San Juan–Chama Project across the Continental Divide. The dam was one of the projects proposed in 1966 for nuclear quarrying projects under Project Travois, a component of Project ...
Robert Rios knows the Rio Grande as few do: its vagary and speed, its awesome power to give life and take it away. ... He explained the science: "One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds. If the ...