January 9, 2008--State meets RG Compact obligation (Alamosa News)
Colorado has liquid gold in the bank when it comes to Rio Grande Compact accounting. Colorado Division of Water Resources Division Engineer for Division III Michael Sullivan told the Rio Grande Roundtable this week that preliminary data puts Colorado about 7,700 acre feet to the good with the Rio Grande Compact.
Combining the totals from the Rio Grande and Conejos Rivers, the state ended 2007 with 7,700 acre feet credit over what it owed downstream states, Sullivan explained. The Rio Grande concluded the year with 6,300 acre feet credit, and the Conejos wound up with 1,400 acre feet to the good according to preliminary numbers, Sullivan added. He said he tried to hold the credit down and keep more of the water in the San Luis Valley rather than storing credit water in the downstream Elephant Butte Reservoir where some of the credit would be lost through evaporation.
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