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STATUS OF NEW MEXICO’S RIVERS Existing Data Panel
Aquatic Species and Water Quality – Stephanie Carman, NMDGF & James Hogan, NMED
Riparian Area and Upper Watershed Condition – Susan Rich, EMNRD
Geomorphic Function and Surface-Connected Aquifers – Shann Stringer, Tetra Tech
Agro-Ecosystem Condition and Climate/Drought Vulnerability – Brian Hurd, NMSU
San Juan River
West Fork - Gila River
Salt Creek - Tularosa Basin(WSMR OPSEC Oct 2004)
Water Quality and Supply
• Agricultural uses
• Domestic uses
• Industrial uses
Biodiversity
Hydrologic Function• Flood attenuation
• Drought mitigation
• Nutrient cycling
• Water purification
Recreation
The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our
children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give any brother.
— Chief Seattle
Chama River Rio Grande Basin
Healthy ecosystems have evolved in response to natural flow variations.
An Altered Streamflow Effects the Chemical and Physical Structure of a River
March 2005
July 2005
Gila River
Mancos River San Juan River Basin
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come. - Leonardo DaVinci
San Antonio RiverRio Grande Basin
175 Aquatic Vertebrate Species of Greatest Conservation Need
Western Painted Turtle
Interior Least Tern
479 Vertebrate Species
Mexican Gray Wolf
Meadow Jumping MouseCosta’s Hummingbird
Aberts Squirrel
Sandhill Crane Northern Leopard Frog
Status of Native Fish
CanadianPecos
Grande
Tularosa
Mimbres
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Zuni
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Intermittent Flows
Rio Grande at the San Marcial Bridge
Rio Nutria and the Zuni Bluehead Sucker
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Rio Nutria and the Zuni Bluehead Sucker
Middle Rio Nutria Current Habitat
Upper Rio Nutria Historical Habitat
Pecos River Diversity
Rio Grande shiner
flathead catfish
Pecos bluntnose shiner
gray redhorse
Plains killifish
blue sucker
Pecos River Hydrograph
Rio Nutria Zuni River Basin
Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All
things are water. - Plutarch
New Mexico Environment Department Clean Water Act 303d Assessment
Temperature
Rio HondoPecos River Basin
Gila River
Sedimentation
Mancos River San Juan River Basin
Rio de las Vacas Jemez Mountains
Black RiverPecos Basin
... the time has also come to identify and preserve freeflowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory. - President Lyndon Johnson