New Mexico Lake Conditions

Heron Lake
7143.27 ' elevation, 192,575 acre feet, 48% full.
Azotea Tunnel is running 78 cfs (78-159 in last 72 hours).
Willow Creek is running 88 cfs (77-254 cfs in last 72 hours).
The lake has risen 1.6 inches and 502 acre feet in the last 72 hours, but only a quarter inch and 77 acre feet in the past 24 hours. Spring runoff is mostly over and finished, though more water likely will flow through the tunnel upon occasion if the back side of Wolf Creek ski area gets some good rains and the tunnel is kept open. We have received about 44.25% of the "normal" "firm yield" runoff. Heron Lake has 72.5% as much water as Elephant Butte Lake, but only 13% as much as Navajo Lake.

Elephant Butte
4318.48 ' elevation, 265,593 acre feet, 13% full.
The river at San Marcial is running at about 193 cfs,
but the dam is discharging 1560 cfs.
The lake has fallen 11.3 inches and lost 8,778 acre feet in 72 hours.

Water storage, in acre-feet
1,486,363 Navajo Lake (down 6,200 af and 9.6 inches in 72 hours)
. . 265,593 Elephant Butte (down 8,800 af and 11 inches in 72 hours)
. . 192,575 Heron
. . 157,639 Abiquiu
. . 130,481 Conchas
. . . 98,869 El Vado (down 5,900 af and 2.7 feet in 72 hours!)
. . . 49,323 Cochiti
. . . 35,981 Eagle Nest
. . . 32,632 Santa Rosa
. . . 22,234 Brantley
. . . 12,444 Sumner
. . . . 9,296 Costilla

Stream Flows
1560 cfs discharge from Elephant Butte Lake
1430 cfs Animas River
1220 cfs Pecos at Artesia (below Conchas & Santa Rosa reservoirs)
. 193 cfs Rio Grande at San Acacia
. . 87 cfs Willow Creek above Heron
. . 38 cfs Rio Chama at La Puento
. . 27 cfs upper Pecos
. . 11 cfs Jemez
. . 11 cfs Gila