Open-File Report 03-169
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-169, 153 pages (Published 2003)
By Kelly, Todd; Romero, Orlando
Prepared in Cooperation with the ALBUQUERQUE METROPOLITAN ARROYO FLOOD CONTROL AUTHORITY and the CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE
This report is available online as a citation and a group of images at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
Urbanization has dramatically increased precipitation runoff to the system of drainage channels and natural stream channels in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, metropolitan area. Rainfall and runoff data are important for planning and designing future storm-water conveyance channels in newly developing areas. Storm-water quality also is monitored in accordance with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority, the City of Albuquerque, and the U.S. Geological Survey began a cooperative program to collect hydrologic data to help assess the quality and quantity of surface-water resources in the Albuquerque area. This report presents water-quality, strearnflow, and rainfall data collected from October 1, 2000, to September 30, 2001 (water year 2001). Also provided is a station analysis for each of the 20 strearnflow-gaging sites and 38 rainfall-gaging sites, which includes a description of monitoring equipment, problems associated with data collection during the year, and other information used to compute strearnflow discharges or rainfall records. A hydrographic comparison shows the effects that the largest drainage channel in the metropolitan area, the North Floodway Channel, has on total flow in the Rio Grande.
Abstract
Introduction
Purpose and scope
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.(NPDES) watdi'-quality monitoring
Annual daily mean flow hydrograph of the North Floodway Channel and the Rio Grande at Albuquerque gaging stations
References cited
Runoff data summary - water year 2001
Surface-water runoff data for water year 2001
Rainfall data summary - water year 2001
Precipitation for water year 2001
This report is available online as a citation and a group of images at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
Kelly, Todd; Romero, Orlando, 2003, Rainfall, runoff, and water-quality data for the urban storm-water program in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, metropolitan area, water year 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-169
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