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The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) was formed in 1925 to manage the irrigation systems and control floods in the Albuquerque Basin.It is responsible for the stretch of river from the Cochiti Dam in Sandoval County in the north, through Bernalillo County, Valencia County and Socorro County to the Elephant Butte Reservoir in the south.
89,652 acres (36,281 ha) v. t. e. The Middle Rio Grande Project manages water in the Albuquerque Basin of New Mexico, United States. It includes major upgrades and extensions to the irrigation facilities built by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District and modifications to the channel of the Rio Grande to control sedimentation and flooding.
The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, Army Corps of Engineers and Bernalillo County coordinated with the water authority to make the project happen, and Albuquerque's Open Space Division ...
The El Vado dam was originally built by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District as a storage facility for irrigation water to be used in the Middle Rio Grande Basin. [1] Construction began in 1933 and the dam was completed in 1935. [3] Impoundment of the reservoir, which filled by 1936, inundated El Vado, the largest town of Rio Arriba ...
Despite an above-average snowpack in New Mexico, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District is anticipating below-average stream flows, in part because of poor soil moisture, Marken said.
The Bureau of Reclamation also announced Wednesday that $5 million is going to the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District for its Middle Rio Grande Environmental Water Program. The funds are ...
The Rio Grande Nature Center State Park is a New Mexico State Park located adjacent to the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US. The Rio Grande Nature Center is a 38-acre urban wildlife preserve established in 1982. About two thirds of the grounds of the park are set aside as habitat for wildlife. The remaining acreage contains a visitors ...
The Angostura Diversion Dam consists of a concrete weir section 17 feet (5.2 m) high and 800 feet (240 m) long. The dam was built in 1934 by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD), and in 1958 was rehabilitated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers as part of the Middle Rio Grande Project.