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Show 77 A more detailed description of the various areas of the Lower Basin in New Mexico is best effected by separate treatment of the drainage areas of each of the seven principal streams tributary to the Colorado River.28 1. Area 1-Black Creek. The drainage area of the streams located here, Black Creek and Todilto Wash, is 229 square miles. Area 1 is partly mountainous and Black Creek flows from mountains into rolling, mountain-valley country with elevations of 6,000 to 8,837 feet. Mean average temperature is 48.1 degrees, mean annual precipitation is 12.74 inches and the summer frost-free period is 130 days. The principal occupation in Area 1 is farming and cattle and sheep ranching; there is only one community of any size-the small town of Crystal.29 2. Area 2-Rio Puerco. The only important stream in this area, Rio Puerco, is fed by numerous dry washes and its flow depends primarily upon occasional rainfall. Its drainage area is 1,083 square miles. The terrain is rolling, dry, hill and cliff country with elevations ranging from 6,000 to 8,837 feet. Mean annual temperature is 50 degrees, annual average precipitation is 13.99 inches and the frost-free period is 153 days. The only substantial city in the area is Gallup, New Mexico, with a population of ll,500.30 3. Area 3-Zuni. The principal streams here are Atarque Creek and the Rio Pescado and Rio Nutria which form the Zuni River. These streams, which in certain reaches are spring fed, form on the western slope of the Zuni Mountains and flow in a southwesterly direction. After flowing from the mountains they traverse a high, rolling 28See Tr. 17263 (Hale) ; N. M. Ex. 400. 29Tr. 17269-17270 (Hale). S0Tr. 17271-17272 (Hale). |
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Original Report: State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California |