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Albuquerque Area Office Water Resources Group

San Juan-Chama Project

Evaporation Loss on Rio Grande Water
Stored in Reservoirs Above Otowi
and Total Rio Grande Storage at El Vado and Abiquiu
2009
(Unit = Acre-Feet)

Table 6. El Vado R.G. Compact R.G. Compact      
Evaporation above Otowi And Debt Debt El Vado Abiquiu Otowi
  Abiquiu Water Water Reservoir Reservoir Evaporation
  Rio Grande El Vado El Vado Rio Grande Rio Grande Adjustment
Month Storage Storage Storage Loss Loss  
  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)=(4)+(5)
January 122686     71 5 76
February 112871     143 10 154
March 121635     391 7 398
April 138662     578 9 587
May 182612     850 420 1270
June 153888     494 172 666
July 133004     684 -2 682
August 90883     582 -5 577
September 83096     179 -3 176
October 69042     260 2 262
November            
December            
 
Annual   0 0 4239 615 4854
 
(1)Sum of natural storage in El Vado and Abiquiu.
(2) Amount of debt water in storage El Vado.
(3)Actual net evaporation loss to debt water in El Vado..
(4)Actual net evaporation loss to natural pool in El Vado.
(5)Actual net evaporation loss to natural pool in Abiquiu.
(6)Sum of net evaporation losses in El Vado and Abiquiu.
Data Current as of November 5, 2009.
NA=Data currently unavailable.