ANALYSIS OF STATE OF NEW MEXICO ALLOCATION OF COLORADO RIVER WATER - JANUARY, 1958

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-ANALYSIS OF STATE OF NEW MEXICO ALLOCATION OF COLORADO RIVER WATER - JANUARY, 1958

UNITS - ACRE FEET

Total water supply Upper Basin States (1)6200000 Compact allocation to Arizona

Main Stem Res, evaporation loss Mexican Treaty Upper Basin States

Sub-total

50 000 (2) 599 000 (3) 17~ 000 I 024 000 Net Water supply four Upper Basin States

State of New l,lexico total supply (11.25%) State of New Alexi co cornni tted use

-Present use

Navajo Res. evaporation Joss Sub-total

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Ba I ance future use

<; t" I e of New !,•ex i co proposed uses -Navajo Irrigation Project Utah Construction Co, Animas - La Plata Project

San Juan - Chama Sub-total

New Mexico state deficiency

N'Jw Mexico state deficiency with only

initial phase of the San Juan

-(4) 127 000 (5) 1L. 000 161 000 (5) 254 000 (6) 76 OCO (7) 33 000 (8) 215 000 598 000 (9) 177 000

Chema Proje~t (9) 67 COO

I 024 000 5 176 000 582 000 161 000 421 000 598 000

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(I) Figure given in the Hil I Report of October, 1953, and used by

Crawford in his September, 1955, and November, 1957, reports, In order to provide the 6,200,000 acre feet of water complete regulation of the river would have been necessary for the 33 year period 1924

-1956 inclusive.

(2) Reservoir evaporation loss includes al fowance for the Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge and the Curecanti reservoirs as reported by

the Bureau of Reclamation.

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The figure was used by Crawford in his 1955 and 1957 reports.

This may run somewhat higher.

(4) This figure was reported by New Mexico State Engineer Reynolds In letter to Ivan Crawford dated December 23, 1957, and includes

allowance for the Fruitland Hogback and the Harrmond projects.

(5) This figure was reported by New Nexico State Engineer Reynolds in letter to Ivan Crawford dated December 23, 1957,

(6) Figure is based on consumptive use factor of

50%

for the water

repcrttd on Notice of Intention To A\ake Formal Application For

Penrit to Appropriate the Natural Public Surface Waters of the State of l~ew Mexico as filed by the Utah Construction Co.

(7) Bureau of Recli!mation report of November, 1954. (8) CJreau of Reclamation report of /,lay, ₁₉₅₇_.

(9) The figures provide no a I lowance for any future municipal or industrial water use by the City of Farmington or any towns of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico.