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Apr 26, 2012
Volume Lost to Sedimentation in Cochiti Lake, NM
Authors: Stephen M. Kolk and Drew C. BairdAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Building Partnerships
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Cochiti Lake, operated on the Rio Grande system by the Army Corps of Engineers (COE), stores transmountain water from the San Juan-Chama Project. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) performs the water accounting of the San Juan-Chama Project water stored in this reservoir. The Rio Grande Compact states of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas review and approve the water accounting procedures and the annual water accounting. Because of the decline in sediment delivery rate into this reservoir in the 1980s and 1990s, the current method for estimating reservoir sedimentation (based on sediment records from the 1970s) overestimates the amount of storage volume lost to sedimentation. The purpose of this study was to recalibrate, using recent sediment and discharge records, the methodology adopted in 1984. The new equations will then be used to determine real time sediment deposition Cochiti Lake.
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Stephen M. Kolk
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Hydraulic Engineer, River Analysis Team, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 505 Marquette NW, Suite 1313, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Drew C. Baird
P.E.
Team Leader, River Analysis Team, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 505 Marquette NW, Suite 1313, Albuquerque, NM 87102
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