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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 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.
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 Conservancy is a major recipient of water from the San Juan–Chama Project, 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. 24% of the 3,755,307,600 cubic feet (106,338,470 m 3) annual supply ...
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.
San Juan Creek, also called the San Juan River, located in Orange County, California; San Juan Creek (Estrella River tributary) in San Luis Obispo County, California San Juan River (Colorado River tributary) in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico in the United States, a tributary of the Colorado River