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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 ...
Dec. 4—Fly fishing on the San Juan River in the Four Corners. Skiing steep runs at Taos Ski Valley. Exploring the Gila Wilderness. Going below the Earth's surface at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
The river at the Blanco Diversion Dam, in late summer with low flow Downstream of the dam, at the start of the lower Blanco. The San Juan–Chama Diversion Project, which was started in 1971, diverted water from the river at the Blanco Diversion Dam and eventually led to reduced water flow and a loss of aquatic habitat in the Rio Blanco. In ...
The San Juan is designated a Blue Ribbon fishery and is one of the most popular fly-fishing waters in the western United States. [32] After a federal biological assessment in 1999, [33] the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program (SJRIP) was established in order to help recover native fish populations in the river. [34]
The San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program or (SJRIP) is a river management project that was established to recover two endangered fish species in the San Juan River, the Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) and the razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus), while allowing water development and management activities to continue in the San Juan River Basin.
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 Upper Basin include such tributary systems as the Green, Gunnison and San Juan. Tributaries in the Lower Basin include the Little Colorado, Virgin and Gila. A key tributary of the San Juan River, the Animas River, was severely affected by the EPA's accidental August 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill. Notes:
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. The river has experienced numerous catastrophes due to the mining nearby, the largest being the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill.