New Mexico Channel
Rio Puerco Online: Channelization Effects on the Rio Puerco Above La Ventana, New Mexico
As shown in figures 1 , 2 and 3 , a straight, mostly north to south diversion channel segment ("ditch") was dug to bypass the natural meandering channel between 1965 and 1966. Copies of the original engineering plans, provided for our examination, show the original artificial channel was designed to incorporate a 10 foot to 20 foot bottom to the channel, defined by sloped banks having a 60 foot slope length. It is apparent that the original channel cut was not completed as designed, perhaps because it cut into resistant bedrock lithologies and a smaller, shallower channel was deemed adequate. To the north the natural channel dimensions are over 150' wide. The channel was forced to enter a 60-foot wide artificial channel mouth, which funneled down to the 20 foot wide channel after only 100 feet. A large earth-fill dam structure isolated the flow and diverted all the Rio Puerco flow into the new north-south "ditch". Within the old meander zone another earth fill berm cut off a recumb ... [Read More]
USGS New Mexico District Selected Publications 1994-Present
Elliott, J.G., Gellis, A.C., Aby, S.B., and Pavich, M.J., 1997, 20th century evolution of the Rio Puerco arroyo, New Mexico--Channel-geometry changes and inner flood-plain aggradation [abs.]: Geological Society of America of America Abstracts with Programs, 1997 Annual Meeting, v. 29, no. 6, p. 372. ... Gellis, A.C., and Pavich, M.J., 1997, Changes in arroyo channels in selected watersheds of New Mexico [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 1997 Annual Meeting, v. 29, no. 6, p. A-372. ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
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Ward, T.J., 1993, Rainfall simulation to estimate potential sediment loadings to the Albuquerque North Diversion Channel: Las Cruces, New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute Report 278, 26 p. ... [Read More]
Recent Projects - Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program - New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office - NMESFO - USFWS
Stream restoration project where structures made from locally available materials recreate stream meanders in an intermittent stream, and control channel down cutting through sediment deposition. ... [Read More]
USGS Programs in New Mexico
Upper Rio Puerco Basin The USGS and NMSO--BLM cooperatively produced high-quality, high-resolution, digital elevation data in the 16,000-square-kilometer upper Rio Puerco basin west of Albuquerque. The digital data are being used by USGS scientists, in collaboration with researchers from other Federal agencies, to study the dynamics of the stream channel. The Rio Puerco produces more sediment than most other streams in the United States. The high sediment load causes erosion and damages the streamside ecosystem downstream. Results of the research will enable land managers to understand and control damaging soil erosion better. ... [Read More]
GSA - Events
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Water Utility Department - Water Resources
The San Juan-Chama Diversion Project was built in the 1960s. It consists of diversion structures on the Colorado River Basin in southern Colorado that capture part of New Mexico's share of the Colorado River and channel it through 26 miles of tunnels under the Continental Divide into the Rio Grande Basin. Heron Reservoir is a storage facility for this water. ... [Read More]
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Lewis, A.M., Nimmo, J.R., and Stonestrom, D.A., 1998, Recharge fluxes through the vadose zone: Point estimates interpreted from centrifuge hydraulic property measurements of core samples from an ephemeral stream channel, Middle Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79, no. 45, p. 368. ... [Read More]
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