NEW MEXICO PROJECTS

• Major Projects
  • Middle Rio Grande Piezometers
  • Cross Sections on the Rio Grande
  • Rio Grande Compact and Pecos River Commission
  • Estimating evaportive losses: Jemez to Albq.
  • Rio Grande Travel Times
  • Urban Storm-Water Prog.
  • Flood Analysis
  • Mesilla Basin

• NAWQA Program
  • Rio Grande NAWQA

• Recently Completed Projects
  • Questa Mine, Red River Valley Basin
  • Travel time of Ground Water, Roswell Basin
  • Middle Rio Grande Basin
  • Monitoring and Pumpage in Albq
  • Contamination in Grants, NM
  • Flood Analysis, Navajo Nation
  • Chemical Modeling, Albuquerque
  • WIPP

• National Projects
  • USGS measures a century of floods
  • Rio Puerco Basin Studies

USGS IN YOUR STATE

USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.

New Mexico Water-Resources Projects

The USGS New Mexico Water Science Center conducts scientific projects that provide reliable, impartial, and timely information to resource managers, planners, and other customers. Federally funded activities in New Mexico generally emphasize regional projects assessing surface-water and ground-water conditions, how natural processes and human activities affect those conditions through time, and the development of new tools and techniques for understanding complex hydrologic systems. Through the USGS Cooperative Water Program, Water Science Center scientists collaboratively design and conduct water resource investigations with State, Tribal, and local partners.

Major Projects

• Data Collection at Selected Cross Sections on the Rio Grande
• Rio Grande Compact and Pecos River Commission
• Estimating Evaporative Losses Incurred by Conveyance of City of Albuquerque San Juan-Chama Water: Jemez to Albuquerque
• Rio Grande Travel Times
• Urban Storm-Water Program in the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area
• Investigation and Analysis of Floods from Small Drainage Areas in New Mexico
• Mesilla Basin Monitoring Program
• Monitoring of Piezometers in the Middle Rio Grande Basin

NAWQA Program

• Rio Grande NAWQA

Recently Completed Projects

• Investigation of Baseline and Pre-Mining Ground-Water Quality, Red River Valley Basin
• Travel Time of Groundwater through the Artesian Aquifer of the Roswell Basin
• Middle Rio Grande Basin Study
• Ground Water Monitoring and Pumpage in the Albuquerque Area
• Vertical Extent of Ground-Water Contamination with Organic Solvents in Grants
• Analysis of the Magnitude and Frequency of Peak Discharge in the Navajo Nation and Surrounding Region, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico
• Chemical Modeling of Consequences of Surface-Water Delivery through Existing City of Albuquerque Infrasture
• Hydrogeologic Data Collected from and near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Site in Southeastern N.M.

National Projects

• USGS measures a century of floods
• Rio Puerco Basin Studies