44th Annual New Mexico Water Conference -- The Rio Grande Compact: It's the Law!
December 2-3, 1999
La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe
sponsored by: New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute and New Mexico Riparian Council
Preliminary Program
Thursday Morning: The History of the Rio Grande Compact
7:30 Registration - La Fonda lobby
8:30 Opening Remarks:
Bobby J. Creel, Acting Director, NM WRRI
Ondrea Linderoth-Hummel, President, NM Riparian Council
Santa Fe Mayor Larry Delgado
8:45 Keynote Address
Douglas R. Littlefield, author of Interstate water conflicts, compromises, and compacts: The Rio Grande, 1880-1938
9:45 Other Historical Perspectives on the Rio Grande Compact
Phil Mutz, Fred Allen, Jim Williams
10:15 Break
10:30 How We Dealt with the Drought of the '50s
Carl Faubion, Woodrow Gary, Ted Cox, others to be announced
11:15 Tribal Perspectives on the Rio Grande Compact
Peter Chestnut, general counsel, Acoma and San Ildefonso pueblos
Pueblo representative to be announced
US Solicitor representative to be announced
12:00 Lunch on your own
Thursday Afternoon: How the Rio Grande Compact Works
1:30 How Colorado Meets Its Obligations Under the Rio Grande Compact
Steve Vandiver, Colorado Division of Water Resources
2:15 Hydrology and Key Accounting Components of the Compact
Conrad Keyes, Environmental and Water Resources Institute
2:30 Surface Water Hydrology of the Rio Grande Basin
Lee Wilson, Lee Wilson & Associates
2:45 Overview of the Groundwater Hydrology of the Rio Grande Basin
John Hawley, Emeritus Senior Geologist, NM Tech, Bureau of Mines
Michael Kernodle, geohydrologist
3:00 Current Water Budget of the Middle Rio Grande
Frank Titus, consulting hydrogeologist
Steve Hansen, Bureau of Reclamation
3:20 Break
3:40 What is the Water Supply: Integrating Water Budget Studies
Deborah Hathaway, Papadopulos & Assoc.
3:50 Albuquerque Basin Groundwater Criteria
John D'Antonio, NM Office of the State Engineer
4:05 Paleohydrology of the Rio Grande
Neal Ackerly, Dos Rios Consultants, Inc.
4:25 Current and Projected San Juan-Chama Water Use
Jaci Gould, Bureau of Reclamation
John Stomp, City of Albuquerque
Mike Hamman, City of Santa Fe
7:00 Dinner Banquet - Terrazas Room, La Fonda
First Albert E. Utton Memorial Water Lecture -- Leon Metz, Historian and Author
Friday Morning: Planning for the Future and Meeting Compact Obligations
8:00 New Mexico's Obligations and Compliance under the Rio Grande Compact
Norm Gaume, Interstate Stream Commission
8:45 Consequences of Noncompliance
Charles DuMars, UNM School of Law
9:00 Do We Need Water Markets?
John Hernandez, Professor Emeritus, NMSU
Lee Brown, Professor Emeritus, UNM
9:30 Upper Rio Grande Basin Water Operations Review and Environmental Impact Statement
Lt. Col. Thomas Fallin, Corps of Engineers
9:50 History and Significance of the Low-Flow Conveyance Channel: What is its Future?
Chris Gorbach, Bureau of Reclamation
10:10 Break
10:30 Domestic Well Depletions
John Shomaker, John Shomaker & Associates
10:45 Demographics and Projected Demands on the System
Jim Peach, New Mexico State University
10:55 Opportunities and Constraints for Environmental Enhancement and Recreation along the Rio Grande
Jeff Whitney, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Steve Harris, Rio Grande Restoration
11:25 Rio Grande Compact (RGC) Commissioners: Issues and Concerns
Hal Simpson, Colorado RGC Commissioner
Tom Turney, New Mexico RGC Commissioner
Texas representative to be announced
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