Water Quality, Streamflow Conditions, and Annual Flow-Duration Curves for Streams of the San Juan?Chama Project, Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, 1935?2010

Falk, Sarah E.; Anderholm, Scott K.; Hafich, Katya A.

ISBN 10: 1500221953 / ISBN 13: 9781500221959

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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• Title: Water Quality, Streamflow Conditions, and Annual Flow-Duration Curves for Streams of the San Juan?Chama Project, Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, 1935?2010
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1500221953
• ISBN 13: 9781500221959
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Albuquerque–Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority supplements the municipal water supply for the Albuquerque metropolitan area, in central New Mexico, with water diverted from the Rio Grande. Water diverted from the Rio Grande for municipal use is derived from the San Juan–Chama Project, which delivers water from streams in the southern San Juan Mountains in the Colorado River Basin in southern Colorado to the Rio Chama watershed and the Rio Grande Basin in northern New Mexico. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Albuquerque–Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, has compiled historical streamflow and water-quality data and collected new water-quality data to characterize the water quality and streamflow conditions and annual flow variability, as characterized by annual flow- duration curves, of streams of the San Juan–Chama Project. Nonparametric statistical methods were applied to calculate annual and monthly summary statistics of streamflow, trends in streamflow conditions were evaluated with the Mann–Kendall trend test, and annual variation in streamflow conditions was evaluated with annual flow-duration curves.