LINKS & PUBLICATIONS
Fact Sheets/Summary Information
- Key Things to Know about the AWSA and the Gila River
- Solutions to Southwest New Mexico’s Long-term Water Needs under the Arizona Water Settlements Act
- Water Rights and Wrongs: Myth vs. Fact and Understanding the Arizona Water Settlements Act and the Future of the Gila River
- Implementation of the Arizona Water Settlements Act in New Mexico – Adrian Oglesby
Agencies
Bureau of Reclamation NM Unit EIS webpage
Interstate Stream Commission Arizona Water Settlements Act webpage
NM Central Arizona Project Entity
Economics
- Bureau of Reclamation – Final Appraisal Report of AWSA Tier 2 Proposals and Diversion, Storage and Conveyance Alternatives
- Potential Economic Costs of a Gila River Diversion
- Report from the 2009 Gila Planning Economic Forum
AWSA Planning Process – 2011 – 2014
- Tier 2 Amended Projects
- Tier 2 Projects
- Tier 2 Projects – Evaluation Panel Rankings
- Tier 1 project results
- New Mexico First Town Hall on AWSA Background Document
- New Mexico First Town Hall on AWSA Final Report
AWSA Stakeholder Process – 2007 – 2011
- AWSA NM Process Framework
- Planning Process Overview and Roadmap
- AWSA Desired Future Conditions
- AWSA Planning Objectives
- Supply and Demand Correlation for AWSA Stakeholders – BOR December 2010
- INTERA Mimbres Supply Technical Memorandum
- Report from the 2009 Science Forum
- Estimates of Region-wide and Deming Area Water supplies – DBSA
- Southwest New Mexico Publication Inventory
- 2006 Science Forum
Gila River Science
- Gila River Flow Needs Assessment – July 2014
- Overview of Geomorphology of the Upper Gila River Basin
- Attributes of an Alluvial River and their Relation to Water Management
- Analysis of Surface Water Groundwater Interactions along the Gila River, Cliff-Gila Valley (14MB file)
- SS Papadopulos – Draft Analysis of Flow and Water Use Alternatives
- “Where the River Meets the Ditch: Human and Natural Impacts on the Gila River, NM 1880 – 2000” Ellen Soles 2003
- USGS Gila River Fluvial Geomorphology Study 2004 (45 MB)
Gila Historical
- Upper Gila Water Supply Study 1987, Bureau of Reclamation
NM Legislature
Southwest New Mexico Water Planning
- SWNM Regional Water Plan – 2005
Executive Summary
Front Matter Vol. 1
Front Matter Vol. 2
Introduction
Public Involvement
Background
Legal Issues
Water Supply
Water Demand
Water Budgets
Alternatives
Appx A – Resources, Info, Maps
Appx B – Public Participation
Appx C – NM Water Law
Appx D – Hydro Info
Appx E – Water Demand
Appx F – Groundwater Budgets
Appx G – Drought Plan Guidance
References - Deming 40 Year Water Plan
- Supplement to Silver City 40 Year Water Plan
- Hydrosphere Resource Consultants – Findings from the Mangas Trench and Gila Groundwater Basin Hyrologic Review
Climate Change
- Water and Drought in the 21’st Century – David Gutzler
- 21st Century Climate Change in Southwest New Mexico: What’s in store for the Gila? (1 page summary) – David Gutzler
- (entire powerpoint) – David Gutzler
New Mexico Water Planning and Management
- Land and Water: Making the Connection
- Taking Charge of our Water Destiny
- Water: the Key to New Mexico’s Future
Earth Matters: Gila/Mimbres Community Radio
- Interim Water & Natural Resources Committee, 10/21/14
- Gila River Festival/Dave Foreman /Call of the Wilderness, 9/30/2014
- Gila River Festival w/ Norm Gaume, Peter Coha & Jim Brainard, 9/30/2014
- 10th Annual Gila River Festival, 9/17/2014
- Mike Fugagli on Gila Birds and Habitat, 8/12/2014
- Michael Berman, 8/12/2014
- Nathan Newcomer on The Gila Wilderness, 8/12/2014
- Cyndi Tuell on Travel Management, 7/16/2014
- Gila Wilderness 90th Anniversary, 7/8/2014
- Wild and Scenic Film Festival & Wild Gila…, 6/7/2014
- Fatal Flaws – Norm Gaume on AWSA Diversion Proposals, 5/20/2014
- SB 89 – The Fate of the Gila…, 3/6/2014
- 2014 NM Legislature – Week 3, 2/12/2014
- 2014 NM Legislature – Water Policy Press Conference, 1/31/2014
- 2014 NM Legislative Preview, 1/25/2014
- Enironmental Issues – 2014 Preview, 12/26/2013
- Alicia Edwards on the Volunteer Center, 12/26/2013
- 9th Annual Gila River Festival: Local Climate Adaptation Panel, 11/7/2013
- Judy Calman on the “McKittrick Policy”, 10/28/2013
- 9th Annual Gila River Festival & Tom Swetnam, 10/7/2013
- Dave Parsons on Mexican Wolves, 9/24/2013
- 9th Annual Gila River Festival & Ken Brower, 9/17/2013
- Nathan Newcomer on NM Wilderness Alliance, 8/28/2013
- Ron Henry & Mary Burton Riseley: El Camino Walk for The Gila, 7/30/2013
- Gila Descending 30th Anniversary, 7/9/2013
- Craig Childs, 8th Annual Gila River Festival, 7/2/2013
- Natural History of the Gila Symposium, 4/3/2013
- Todd Schulke on AWSA Pipeline Threat, 2/26/2013
- Earth Matters / Economic Development & Public Lands, Pt 2, 1/27/2013
- Earth Matters / Economic Development & Public Lands, Pt 1, 1/15/2013
- Cyndi Tuell on Travel Management in the Gila National Forest, 1/29/2013
- Year in Review, 2012: Part 2, 12/31/2012
- Year in Review, 2012, Part 1, 12/25/2012
- Threatened & Endangered: A Panel Discussion on Biodiversity Loss in the Southwest, 11/19/2013
- Martha Schumann Cooper on the Gila River, 11/7/2012
- Michael Robinson & Jaguar Critical Habitat, 10/17/2012
- Michael Berman on Art & The Gila, 10/9/2012
- Nancy Kaminski on Wolves, 10/2/2013