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Basin description Basin location [4] Basin size [4] Basin map 180901 Mono–Owens Lakes basin: Mono Lake and Owens Lake closed basins [5] 4,310 sq mi (11,200 km 2) HUC180901: 180902 Northern Mojave basin: Closed desert basins that discharge into south-central California, including Death Valley and the Upper Mojave Desert, excluding Mono Lake ...
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 Closed Basin Project extracts groundwater from the San Luis Valley and delivers it into the Rio Grande.
The Conservancy is a major recipient of water from the San Juan–Chama Project, a series of tunnels and diversions that take water from the drainage basin of the San Juan River – a tributary of the Colorado River – to supplement water resources in the Rio Grande watershed. 24% of the 3,755,307,600 cubic feet (106,338,470 m 3) annual supply ...
The San Juan–Chama Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation interbasin water transfer project located in the states of New Mexico and Colorado in the United States.The project consists of a series of tunnels and diversions that take water from the drainage basin of the San Juan River – a tributary of the Colorado River – to supplement water resources in the Rio Grande watershed.
From its source on the west side of the Nacimiento Mountains, it flows about 230 miles (370 km), [3] generally south to join the Rio Grande about 20 miles (32 km) south of Belen and about 50 miles (80 km) south of Albuquerque. Its drainage basin is about 7,350 square miles (19,000 km 2) large, of which probably about 1,130 square miles (2,900 ...
The terrain mainly consists of basins broken by numerous small mountain ranges.. There are several larger mountain ranges in the Chihuahuan Desert, including the Sierra Madre, the Sierra del Carmen, the Organ Mountains, the Franklin Mountains, the Sacramento Mountains, the Chisos Mountains, the Guadalupe Mountains, and the Davis Mountains.
A freshwater lake developed in the basin about 400,000 – 500,000 years ago near the Calico Archaeological Site. The lake was present until the late Pleistocene. The last high stand of Lake Manix was at 543 m (1,781 ft) and had a surface area of approximately 236 km 2 (91 sq mi). This lake drained, probably catastrophically, approximately ...
Middle Rio Grande Valley, the valley created by the river as it traverses the basin; Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, which manages irrigation and flood control in the Albuquerque basin of central New Mexico; Middle Rio Grande Development Council, a voluntary association of cities, counties and special districts in southern Texas