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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 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.
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 ...
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 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.
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of New Mexico arranged by drainage basin, ... (New Mexico/Texas) Tramperos Creek ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of ...
The Albuquerque Basin (or Middle Rio Grande Basin [1]) is a structural basin and ecoregion within the Rio Grande rift in central New Mexico. It contains the city of Albuquerque . Geologically, the Albuquerque Basin is a half-graben that slopes down towards the east to terminate on the Sandia and Manzano mountains. [ 2 ]
With a total area of 121,590 square miles (314,900 km 2), [1] New Mexico is the fifth-largest state, after Alaska, Texas, California, and Montana. Its eastern border lies along 103°W longitude with the state of Oklahoma, and 2.2 miles (3.5 kilometres) west of 103°W longitude with Texas (due to a 19th-century surveying error).