Purpose |
Flows |
Recreation purposes or boating |
600 to1000 cfs |
Vegetation |
6000 cfs every 10 years for maintaining vegetation, 4500 cfs every 3 -5 years for riparian recruitment |
Sediment flushing |
2500 cfs 1-2 years event |
Brown trout |
Minimum of
100 cfs |
Full capacity of river (Maximum flow release below
dam) |
1800 cfs |
Discharge without effecting the Acequias
diversion structure |
1600 cfs |
Total flow for all Acequias below Abiquiu dam |
Around 150 cfs |
Flow received by each Acequia |
Around 6 cfs |