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The dam serves for flood control, irrigation and long-term water storage, and its operations are paired with two major water projects of the upper San Juan River: the San Juan–Chama Project which diverts almost 100,000 acre-feet (0.12 km 3) per year from the San Juan watershed to the Rio Grande system serving Albuquerque, New Mexico, [95] and ...
The San Juan structural basin is generally the east portion of the San Juan River Watershed of 24,600 sq mi (64,000 km 2) which extends farther west into Utah and Arizona. [1] The San Juan Basin is a geologic structural basin located near the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States.
San Rafael River; Dark Canyon; Dirty Devil River. Muddy Creek; Fremont River; Escalante River; San Juan River. East Fork San Juan River; West Fork San Juan River. Wolf Creek; Navajo River; Piedra River; Los Pinos River; Animas River. Florida River; La Plata River; Chaco River; Mancos River; Chinle Creek; Paria River; Little Colorado River. Zuni ...
These include the Central Utah Project, which delivers 102,000 acre-feet (126,000,000 m 3) per year from the Green River basin to the Wasatch Front, and the San Juan–Chama Project, which diverts 110,000 acre-feet (140,000,000 m 3) per year from the San Juan River to the Rio Grande Valley. Both are multi-purpose projects serving a variety of ...
The San Juan River, which carries runoff from the southern slopes of the San Juan Mountains and the Four Corners region in Colorado and New Mexico, joins several miles further downstream; it forms an arm of the lake nearly 70 miles (110 km) long. Although the San Juan contributes only about one-tenth of the Colorado River flow, it is extremely ...
Animas River (On-e-mas; Spanish: Río de las Ánimas) is a 126-mile-long (203 km) [1] river in the western United States, a tributary of the San Juan River, part of the Colorado River System.
San Juan Creek, also called the San Juan River, [1] is a 29-mile (47 km) long stream in Orange and Riverside Counties, draining a watershed of 133.9 square miles (347 km 2). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Its mainstem begins in the southern Santa Ana Mountains in the Cleveland National Forest .
The San Juan–Chama Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation interbasin water transfer project located in the states of New Mexico and Colorado in the United States.The project consists of a series of tunnels and diversions that take water from the drainage basin of the San Juan River – a tributary of the Colorado River – to supplement water resources in the Rio Grande watershed.