Resources

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

• GCC Presentation to Water and Natural Resources Interim Legislative Committee

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
• 9^th Annual Gila River Festival: Local Climate Adaptation Panel, 11/7/2013
• Judy Calman on the “McKittrick Policy”, 10/28/2013
• 9^th Annual Gila River Festival & Tom Swetnam, 10/7/2013
• Dave Parsons on Mexican Wolves, 9/24/2013
• 9^th 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 30^th Anniversary, 7/9/2013
• Craig Childs, 8^th 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