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Albuquerque Area Office Water Resources Group

San Juan-Chama Project

2008
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. 2007 6887.54 142759 99488 43271 6219.71 182715 238 180430 2047
January 6887.50 142648 99604 43044 6219.79 183037 0 180989 2048
February 6885.35 136819 99250 37569 6220.31 185135 1396 181680 2059
March 6872.18 104716 84892 19824 6220.37 185378 3119 180091 2168
April 6870.25 100555 80849 19706 6219.16 180520 -89 178279 2330
May 6899.74 179026 159433 19593 6221.64 190586 11727 176397 2462
June 6899.39 177921 160482 17439 6218.04 176093 0 173533 2560
July 6899.48 178205 163082 15123 6219.03 180000 2 177426 2572
August 6890.81 151980 144559 7421 6218.29 177076 1 174480 2595
September 6884.19 133747 124483 9264 6217.99 175899 2 173275 2622
October                  
November                  
December                  
 
(2) Total content reflects most recent area capacity tables.
(6) Total content based on latest resurvey effective December 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 2622 AF for a total accumulation of 18741 AF.
Data Current as of October 7, 2008.
NA=Data currently unavailable.