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Preparing Water Users In The Lower Rio Grande For Adjudication Through An Informative Workshop, Leslie R. Kryder
Preparing Water Users In The Lower Rio Grande For Adjudication Through An Informative Workshop, Leslie R. Kryder
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The Lower Rio Grande basin in New Mexico is currently undergoing water right adjudication. The adjudication process is important to identify and quantify water uses throughout the Lower Rio Grande. It is intended to facilitate water rights administration by the Office of the State Engineer. Where water users do not understand the purpose and process, they may not participate effectively. Through conversations with irrigators and others familiar with the situation, I explore some of the water users perspectives regarding the adjudication. In general, the water users find the adjudication packets received from the Office of the State Engineer difficult to …
A Water Quality Assessment Of The Rio Katari River And Its Principle Tributaries, Bolivia, Sara M. Chudnoff
A Water Quality Assessment Of The Rio Katari River And Its Principle Tributaries, Bolivia, Sara M. Chudnoff
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The Altiplano region of Bolivia located between Lake Titicaca and La Paz is one of the fastest growing regions in the world. Demands for safe drinking water, sewage treatment and cleaner industrial and agriculture methods are not being met and are adversely affecting surface and groundwater sources. Detrimental water quality often leads to water borne illnesses that can be fatal, especially in young children, the elderly and immune compromised individuals. This paper describes a project that was conducted to determine the impact of El Alto and surrounding communities on the water quality of the Rio Katari and its principal tributaries. …
Fluvial Geomorphic Response To In-Stream Structures: The Effects Of Design, Planning And Restoration Of The Comanche Creek Catchment, New Mexico, Usa, Ryan M. Weiss
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Anthropogenic impacts to the Comanche Creek catchment of northern New Mexico have resulted in impaired water quality and aquatic habitat for Rio Grande cutthroat trout. Federal and state policies promulgating collaborative, multi-stakeholder watershed-based restoration endeavors have driven the implementation of in-stream, riparian and upland treatments in the catchment. This research addresses restoration endeavors through a review of stream channel and watershed planning, policy and restoration. Drawing upon case studies from current literature, policies driving watershed restoration and the use of in-stream structures to improve aquatic habitat and water quality were reviewed. A stream hydrograph was extrapolated utilizing streamflow evaluations from …
Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Induced Meandering Within An Incised, Discontinuous Gully System Post Wildfire Within The Valle Vidal, Carson National Forest,New Mexico, Jennifer Montano Allred
Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Induced Meandering Within An Incised, Discontinuous Gully System Post Wildfire Within The Valle Vidal, Carson National Forest,New Mexico, Jennifer Montano Allred
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The suppression of wildfires has created the opportunities for catastrophic wildfires, which can increase suspended-sediment, stream temperature, stream flows, erosion and sedimentation in surrounding waterways. Burn Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER)has utilized a number of different treatments to minimize these effects following a wildfire. Induced meandering is a new concept that utilizes rock structures to promote the stabilization of incised degrading channels, by simulating river riffles, elevating channel bottoms, establishing channel slope, to encourage channel meander and the formation of an active floodplain. This project evaluates the effectiveness of rock baffles, one-rock dams, and aerial seeding in stabilizing an incised discontinuous …
Corrective Action Plan For The New Mexico Landfill, Matthew Lane
Corrective Action Plan For The New Mexico Landfill, Matthew Lane
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Beginning in 1979 the New Mexico Landfill accepted municipal waste from neighboring communities and businesses for 21 years. During that time landfill operators buried as much as 1.5 million cubic yards of refuse along the bottom of a local ephemeral drainage basin. Refuse was deposited in a series of trenches excavated from the center of the basin and mounded up to 15 feet over the preexisting grade. In anticipation of cessation of operations the New Mexico Landfill began closure activities in compliance with New Mexico Environment Department regulations. Between 1995 and 2000 a clay liner was constructed over the top …
Potential For Ground-Water Contamination From Deep Well Injection Of Produced Waters In The Salt Basin, New Mexico, Melanie L. Luna
Potential For Ground-Water Contamination From Deep Well Injection Of Produced Waters In The Salt Basin, New Mexico, Melanie L. Luna
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The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) recent approval for fluid mineral leasing on public lands the Salt Basin, New Mexico, introduces extensive development and underground injection disposals with no special provisions for the protection of ground-water resources. Included in these lands is Otero Mesa, a Chihuahuan desert grassland home to a variety of flora and fauna. The Salt Basin is underlain with a high-density fractured limestone aquifer and a prominent structural feature referred to as the Otero Break. This zone of intensely-fractured limestone may act as a conduit for potential contamination from the injection of saline waters, produced as a …
Point-Of-Use Arsenic Treatment Using Activated Alumina, T. Jeffery Cotter
Point-Of-Use Arsenic Treatment Using Activated Alumina, T. Jeffery Cotter
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Effective and affordable arsenic removal from drinking water has become a significant issue recently. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has promulgated a new maximum contaminant level (MCL) for arsenic in drinking water which will take effect in January 2004. The current arsenic MCL of 50 micrograms per liter (ugll) was set by the United sates Public Health Service in 1943 and has not been reduced in nearly 60 years. Arsenic has been linked to various types of cancers, prompting EPA to change the standard. Due to the fact many water systems, especially small water utilities serving less than …
Nutrient Criteria Recommendations For Eutrophication Management Of New Mexico Reservoirs, Heidi R. Henderson
Nutrient Criteria Recommendations For Eutrophication Management Of New Mexico Reservoirs, Heidi R. Henderson
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Many of the lakes and reservoirs in the world are adversely affected by eutrophication. In order to counter this trend, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEP A) had developed numeric nutrient criteria for use by the States and Tribes. The USEP A has based their criteria on Level III ecoregions and their aggregated ecoregions. This project seeks to determine the validity of using these USEP A recommendations in the State of New Mexico to replace the State's current narrative nutrient criteria. This project will also offer nutrient criteria recommendations for four criteria variables: total nitrogen, total phosphorus, Secchi depth, and …
Assessment Of Conjunctive-Use Strategies For Water Resources Development In The South Valley Area, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Frederic L. Shean Jr.
Assessment Of Conjunctive-Use Strategies For Water Resources Development In The South Valley Area, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Frederic L. Shean Jr.
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The development of water resources is the most important issue facing water resource managers today, particularly in the U. S. southwest, where demand is far greater than water ground-water replenishment. Conjunctive-use strategies for water resource development, or the integration of surface and ground-water uses towards developing one or both of these reserves, were simulated in a static water balance model identifies strategies would increase annual changes in water storage hydrologic system by increasing the amount of water available for aquifer recharge in the South Valley Area (SVA) of Bernalillo County. The evaluation was accomplished by simulating increases and decreases in …
Effects Of Bovine Exclosure Fencing On Water Quality And Vegetative Conditions,Bluewater Creek, New Mexico., Darrell Kundargi
Effects Of Bovine Exclosure Fencing On Water Quality And Vegetative Conditions,Bluewater Creek, New Mexico., Darrell Kundargi
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Livestock grazing can have a profound effect on water quality and vegetation of riparian ecosystems. In this study, the impacts of livestock grazing on surface water quality and vegetation was investigated along Bluewater Creek in the Zuni Mountains of New Mexico. The impacts of grazing were studied by comparing three areas enclosed with bovine fencing in 2003 against unenclosed adjacent areas. A section free of grazing since the 1980s served as a reference area. Sampling sites were further stratified by the dominant geomorphology of incised and stable stream banks. Surface water temperature, conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), turbidity, N03--N + …
Designing A Village Water Supply System In Papua New Guinea: A Case Study In Third World Delopment, Barak Bruerd
Designing A Village Water Supply System In Papua New Guinea: A Case Study In Third World Delopment, Barak Bruerd
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Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the second largest island in the world and one of the most biologically and culturally diverse nations on the planet. One of the last true stone age people, they are struggling with the delicate balance of entering the 21st century without losing their unique cultural heritage or devastating the fragile ecosystem they have lived in harmony with for thousands of years. Slow, careful steps are needed in order to ensure sustainable development; however the hardships of living close to nature - disease, drought, malnutrition, and lack of access to healthcare services, are causing Papua New …
A Case Study Of Water Sharing In The San Juan Basin, Sara Henchey Brosnan
A Case Study Of Water Sharing In The San Juan Basin, Sara Henchey Brosnan
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In times of shortage, how should New Mexico's scarce water supply be allocated? New Mexico's prior appropriations doctrine gives a temporal preference of 'first in time, first in right,' as the rule for allocation. Unfortunately, in most basins, we do not know with certainty who that 'first' is, because rights have not been adjudicated. In 2004, the New Mexico Legislature passed Active Water Resource Management (AWRM) legislation which codified the Office of the State Engineer's (OSE's) authority to administer water rights in advance of adjudication if needed. The OSE promulgated general regulations in 2004 implementing the legislation and district specific …
Nitrate Contaminated Groundwater In Albuquerque's South Valley: Is Monitored Natural Attenuation An Appropriate Strategy?, Christina L. Keleher
Nitrate Contaminated Groundwater In Albuquerque's South Valley: Is Monitored Natural Attenuation An Appropriate Strategy?, Christina L. Keleher
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Nitrate-contaminated groundwater in the South Valley of Albuquerque has been documented since the early 1960s. Over the past four decades, nitrate concentrations have declined, but are still significantly greater than the groundwater standard of 10 mg/L. In 1980, a case of methemoglobinemia in an infant prompted the city to extend city water lines into the residential areas of Mountain View, where residents were previously dependent upon private domestic wells for drinking water. Although the nitrate-contaminated water no longer presents a human health threat to the residents of Mountain View, all groundwater in New Mexico that contains less than 10,000 mg/L …
An Assessment Of Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions And Water Quality In Bluewater Creek New Mexico, Jan M. Curtis
An Assessment Of Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions And Water Quality In Bluewater Creek New Mexico, Jan M. Curtis
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Bluewater creek, a spatially intermittent headwater stream and one of the main tributaries to Bluewater Lake, is located in the Zuni Mountains in Cibola National Forest approximately 100 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Annual peak discharge occurs during the spring snowmelt runoff in March and April. Average annual discharge for Bluewater Creek for the period 1989 through 2000 is approximately 9.5 cubic feet per second. The Bluewater Creek sub-watershed has a drainage area of approximately 54,300 acres (84 square miles). Watershed elevation ranges from 6650 to 9240 feet above sea level with a mean elevation of 8020 feet. Annually, …