Water Issues of Eastern New Mexico

October 2-3, 1997, Tucumcari Convention Center

 

WRRI Report No. 304

Conference Proceedings (as one file)

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Contents

Cover, Table of Contents, and Conference Program

Director’s Statement    Tom Bahr

Keynote Address    Commissioner Eluid Martinez

An Engineer Reflects on the Water History of the Eastern Plains    John W. Hernandez

Reservoir Storage Development in the Canadian River Basin and Related Litigation    Philip B. Mutz

An Overview of the Geology of Northeastern New Mexico    Adrian P. Hunt

The High Plains (Ogallala) Aquifer: Managing the Resource in the Southern High Plains, New Mexico    Dennis Woodward

Overview of the Hydrology of Northeastern New Mexico    Charles R. Wilson

Persistence: Brief Development History of the Tucumcari Irrigation Project (Arch Hurley Conservancy District)    Jim Geyler

Update on New Mexico Water Issues and What is Happening in the New Mexico State Engineer Office    Thomas C. Turney

Geohydrologic Characteristics of the Taylor Well Field, City of Las Vegas, New Mexico    Jay Lazarus and Paul G. Drakos

Aquifer Storage and Recovery Study for the City of Alamogordo, New Mexico    Eddie Livingston and Steven T. Finch, Jr.

Groundwater Relationships along the New Mexico-Texas Stateline in the Southern High Plains    Mustafa Chudnoff

Water Rights Considerations Regarding Conjunctive Use of Surface Water and Groundwater in New Mexico    Andrew L. Lieuwen

A Technology for In Situ Denitrification of Groundwater    H. Eric Nuttall

Cobble Mulch: An Anasazi Water-Conservation Gardening Technique    Carleton S. White, David R. Dreesen and Samuel R. Loftin

Some Facts about Cloud Seeding from Recent Research on Rain Enhancement in Texas    George W. Bomar

Lake Meredith Salinity Control Project    Lee Wilson and Leon E. Esparza

Watershed Management Issues    Debbie Hughes

Growth, Development and Water: Panel of Policy Makers    Mayor Pro Tem Ron Harris, Mayor Nathan L. Tharp, Mayor Donald Davis, Administrator Larry Wallin, Commissioner Glenn Briscoe

Regional Water Planning    J. Phelps White III, Tracy Seidman Hephner, Mary Helen Follingstad, Lee Tillman

Agricultural Water Conservation Panel    Woods Houghton, Scotty Savage, Robert Faubion, Palemon Martinez

Agricultural Water Conservation Panel    Frank A. Ward and J. Phillip King

Water Conference Advisory Committee

Participant List