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Albuquerque Area Office Water Resources Group

San Juan-Chama Project

2009
San Juan-Chama Water Storage
Rio Grande Basin
(Unit = Acre-Feet)

Table 5a. El Vado Reservoir Abiquiu Reservoir
SJ-C Storage   Total Rio San Juan     Rio San Juan  
    Total Grande Chama   Content Grande Chama Accumulated
Month Elevation Content Content Content Elevation Content Content Content Sediment
  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
Dec. 2008 6893.42 159619 116897 42722 6220.16 184529 102 181786 2640
January 6892.30 160818 121174 39645 6220.02 183962 1513 179809 2641
February 6892.73 162108 122493 39614 6219.48 181795 377 178777 2641
March 6892.13 160310 120786 39524 6219.29 181037 849 177538 2650
April 6895.28 169837 137508 32329 6218.90 179486 1154 175639 2693
May 6898.47 179674 147446 32228 6226.72 212118 35166 173941 3011
June 6898.87 180919 153888 27032 6218.68 178617 0 175586 3030
July 6889.40 152259 133004 19254 6218.47 177787 0 174723 3064
August 6877.65 120638 90881 29757 6219.21 180718 2 177588 3127
September 6882.17 132208 83096 49112 6219.44 181635 0 178478 3156
October 6873.22 110049 69051 40998 6219.65 182475 -9 179318 3166
November 6875.32 114962 60922 54039 6219.50 181875 0 178708 3167
December                  
 
(2) Total content reflects most recent area capacity tables.
(6) Total content based on latest resurvey effective Dec 31, 1998.
(7) Includes conservation pool for Silvery Minnow Agreement.
(9) Accumulated sediment is estimated from latest resurvey to present. The total accumulated sediment within the Abiquiu San Juan-Chama pool until the last sediment survey of December 31, 1998 was 16119 AF. Estimated sediment accumulation since last survey is 3,167 AF for a total accumulation of 19,286 AF.
Data Current as of December 9, 2009.
NA=Data currently unavailable.