The responsibility of the Storm Drainage Design Section of the Engineering Division is to improve the effectiveness of the storm drainage system within the City of Albuquerque and to safeguard the quality of the storm water runoff discharging into Rio Grande.

This Section oversees the planning, design and installation of storm water control systems and monitors the quantity and quality of the storm water runoff.

Storm Drainage Design also provides guidance and training to local engineers, planners and contractors in the planning and implementation of storm water quality control measures for construction projects installed within the City of Albuquerque.

In October, City of Albuquerque voters overwhelmingly approved the General Obligation Bond Package.

View the Storm Drainage Projects these bonds support.

Read the Storm Drainage Decade Plan.

Storm Drainage Projects

2008 Projects

• Odelia Storm Drain -- $0.76M
  (Wilson & Co., NM Underground)
• Broadway & Odelia AQ-Pond -- $0.44M
  (Wilson & Co., NM Underground)
• Kinley, Broadway to Edith, Storm Drain -- $0.91M
  (Wilson & Co., NM Underground) 
• Tingley Park Reconstruction -- $3.9M
  (Wilson & Co., A.S.Horner)
• Wyoming/La Cueva Arroyo Box Culvert ( in co-op with AMAFCA)--$1.15M  
  ( Resources Tech, RMCI) 
• Moon Storm Drain, Central to I-40 -- $1.42M
  (Boh & Hust)
• San Mateo Pl. Storm Drain North I-40 with NMDOT -- $1.38M
  (Boh & Hust)
• San Mateo/Hahn Storm Drain (in co-op with AMAFCA)--$1.07M
  (Smith Eng, RMCI) 
• Pump Station Rehabilitation -- $1.00M
• Coal Storm Drain Rehab. And Extention -- $1.10M
• San Pedro Storm Drain North Albuquerque Acres -- $1.00M
• Hotel Circle/Morris North of Lomas -- $1.30M
• District 3 Storm Drain Improvements -- $4.00M

2007 Projects

• Tingley Park Renovation -- $3.0M
  (Wilson & Co., NM Underground)
• 14th and Iron Storm Drainage Improvements -- $150,000 
  (Wilson & Co., NM Underground)
• 47th St- Central Storm Drain-II -- $1.40M
  (Larkin, NM Underground)
• Hotel Circle/I-40 to Lomas -- $1.34M
  (Smith Eng, Salls brothers)
• Osuna Blvd Storm Drain Rehab -- $3.02M
  (Boh & Hust, NM Underground)
• Storm Water Pump Stations Rehab -- $0.45M

2006 Projects Completed 

• Vineyard Ridge/Barstow Storm Rehab -- $30,000
  (TLC)
• 47th & West Central Storm Drain Rehab Phase II -- $1.4M
  (Larkin, NM Underground)
• Eubank Storm Drain Outfall/Tijeras Arroyo -- $80,000
• Manzano Mesa Detention Pond -- $4,500
• Arroyo del Oso Park -- $10,000
• Amole Arroyo Phase 3 -- $2.6M
  (Mark Goodwin, Salls Bros.)
• Bryan Street Drainage Improvements -- $9,000
• Palo Alto Madison Street Drainage Improvements -- $16,000
• Hahn Arroyo Improvement -- $32,000
• Embudo Arroyo Improvement -- $12,000

These projects may include additional funding from other than city CIP

2005 Projects Completed

• NMDOT coordination on I-40 Westbound -- $635,742
• West Mesa Diversion, Phase IID -- $2,027,293
  (Salls Brother / Smith)
• Gibson Blvd. Drainage with Road Rehab -- $950,000
  (D. Montoya) (P.B)
• Central/Churchill Diversion -- $1,281,436
  (Condore) (Larkin)
• South Broadway/San Jose Rehab. -- $989,985
  (AEI) Thompson)
• Domingo Baca, NDC to Washington -- $1,803,871
  (A.S. Horner) (Smith)
• San Pedro Collectors at N. Pino Arroyo  -- $719,334
  (Salls Brother) (Thompson)
• Boca Negra Arroyo Crossing at Tesuque -- $493,172 
  (AUI) (RTI)
• Eubank Claremont to Comanche -- $3,144,205
  (NMUI) (URS)
• N. 2 nd Street Storm Drain, Headingly to Griegos -- $3,739,829
  (NMUI) (Larkin)

2005 City Wide Small Projects

In 2005 the City of Albuquerque managed 21 smaller drainage projects totaling $138,083

2004 Projects Completed

• 47th Street and Central Phase 1 -- $912,672
  (RMCI, Larkin)
• Wyoming, Embudo to Northeastern -- $2.4M
  (Salls Bros., URS)
• Clifford Channel Reconstruction -- $1.052M
  (RMCI, BHI)
• Bear Arroyo west of Wyoming -- $535,189
  (D. Montoya, ASCG)
• Highland Storm Drain Phase 3 -- $1.2M
  (JR Hale, ASCG)
• Louisiana Storm Drains with I-40 Bridge -- $600,000
• Pino at Wyoming LOMR -- $350,000

Reports

Storm Drainage Library: Click here to see the list.

Rainfall, Runoff and Water Quality Data Report for Albuquerque 2003-2004 

Rainfall, Runoff and Water Quality Data Report for Albuquerque 2002-2003

Middle Rio Grande Microbial Source Tracking Report

City of Albuquerque Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System MS4 Permit

The AMAFCA/Albuquerque MS4 Floatable and Gross Pollutant Study

Storm Water Analysis

The City of Albuquerque Antibiotic Resistance Analysis of Contamination in Storm Water
[See Text of the Analysis [3.4 mb]; [See Maps [4.7 mb]; [See Appendices [2.36 mb]
report relates to Bacterial Source Tracking (BST) of Albuquerque's storm water.
The BST methodology is used to determine the sources of fecal bacteria in environmental
samples (e.g. from human, livestock, or wildlife origins). BST is also called fecal source tracking and/or fecal typing.

As part of our draft Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Permit (MS4) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency there is on-going storm water quality sampling. The sampling is done by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) at locations throughout Albuquerque to test the storm water quality that discharges to the Rio Grande (seeMS4 Storm Water Quality Sampling USGS Fact Sheet [794k] ).

This is done as a joint effort with the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority (AMAFCA) , New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), University of New Mexico, and the City of Albuquerque .

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