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  • June

    Lt. Col. Jerre Hansbrough, left, commander, USACE-Albuquerque District, and Mark Sanchez, executive director, Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, signed a new water storage agreement for Abiquiu Reservoir at the Water Authority’s Customer Service Center in Albuquerque, N.M., June 26, 2024. The agreement will allow Abiquiu Reservoir to store Rio Grande system water for the first time, functionally increasing Abiquiu Reservoir’s storage capacity from 200,000 acre feet to approximately 230,000 acre feet.

    USACE, ABCWUA sign new water storage agreement for Abiquiu Reservoir

    The Albuquerque District signed a new water storage agreement for Abiquiu Reservoir with the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, June 26.

  • May

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- Photo of the Rio Grande from Tingley Beach at Central Bridge, May 5, 2014. The photo shows the river before flows increase in an effort to help the Rio Grande silvery minnow spawn.

    Water Managers Cooperate to Create Beneficial River Flows

    Flows on the Rio Grande from Albuquerque to Elephant Butte Reservoir will increase this week in a coordinated effort aimed at triggering a spawn of the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow. This pioneering effort by federal and non-federal water managers will create conditions that haven’t naturally occurred over the last four years due to drought.