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The New River's flow is composed of agricultural and chemical runoff waste from farm industry irrigation in the U.S. (18.4%) and Mexico (51.2%), sewage from Mexicali (29%), and manufacturing plants operating in Mexico (1.4%). Where New River crosses the Mexico–U.S. border near Calexico, California, its channel contains a stew of about a ...
Costilla Creek. Rio San Antonio. Rio de los Pinos. Pecos River. Delaware River. Black River. Rio Penasco. Rio Felix. Rio Hondo (Southern New Mexico)
The California State Water Project is the largest multipurpose, state-built water project in the United States. [49] The SWP transports water from the Feather River watershed to agriculture, and some of the water goes to industrial and urban users. More than two-thirds of Californians receive some water from the SWP.
The Gila River (/ ˈhiːlə /; O'odham [Pima]: Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil[4]) is a 649-mile-long (1,044 km) [2] tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid watershed of nearly 60,000 square miles (160,000 km 2) that lies ...
The water level and streamflow of the Rio San Jose has been measured at a number of sites in Cibola County, New Mexico. Stream gauges have been operated by the USGS near Laguna, Correo, and at Acoma Pueblo, near Grants. [6] [7] [8] The gauge at Acoma Pueblo has a record that commenced in 1937, and is the only one still active.
Marsh Creek. Mokelumne River (jump to tributaries) Old River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Middle River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Bear Creek. Calaveras River (jump to tributaries) Mormon Slough (distributary of Calaveras River) French Camp Slough. Littlejohns Creek.
The river starts in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and passes through the state capital, Santa Fe providing approximately 40% of the city's water supply. It is an intermittent stream with two perennial reaches. The river is 46 miles (74 km) long. It was first dammed in 1881 and flows when water is released by the city of Santa Fe from two ...
Location of the San Juan Basin on a map of the United States. The San Juan Basin is an asymmetric structural depression in the Colorado Plateau province, with varying elevation and nearly 3,000 feet (910 m) in topographic relief. Its most striking features include Chaco Canyon (northwestern New Mexico, between Farmington and Santa Fe) and ...