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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, …