June 17, 2007--San Juan River a masterpiece (Farmington Daily Times)
The San Juan-Chama Diversion Project takes water (110,000 acre-feet) from San Juan tributaries in Colorado and tunnels it beneath the Continental Divide and into the Chama River. Since 1970, this water has been flowing down the Chama, stored in Heron Lake, and released to the middle Rio Grande River Basin. The river flows from the west side of the San Juan Mountains, in southwestern Colorado, dips into New Mexico for about a hundred miles through the oil and gas region of Bloomfield and Farmington, then turns northwest into Utah, where it forms the northern boundary of the Navajo Nation.
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