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Estimated 2016 Groundwater Level and Drawdown from

Predevelopment to 2016 in the Santa Fe Group Aquifer System in the Albuquerque Area, Central New Mexico

By

Amy E. Galanter and Lucas T.S. Curry

2019

Figure 1. Estimated 2016 groundwater level and drawdown, predevelopment (prior to 1961) to 2016, Albuquerque area, central New Mexico.

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Geological Survey

Scientific Investigations Map 3433

Pamphlet accompanies sheet

Irrigation well

EXPLANATION

Wells used to construct 2016 groundwater-level contours

Downward (negative) vertical groundwater-level difference, in feet

U.S. Geological Survey continuously measured piezometer

 site name and number used to create hydrograph (fig. 3)

Primary use of well is for observation

Nor Este

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Production well

Production well not used to construct 2016 groundwater-level contour

^_ Production zone interpolation points along Rio Grande

Major faults (concealed and exposed) as identified by

 Connell (2006), Minor and Hudson (2006)

Drawdown boundary used in Bexfield and Anderholm (2002a),

 Falk and others (2011), Powell and McKean (2014)

Middle Rio Grande Basin, from Plummer and others (2012)

Points used to estimate the groundwater level in the production zone beneath the Rio Grande

Approximate direction of groundwater flow

Boundaries and faults

No drawdown

0 to 20

21 to 40

41 to 60

61 to 80

81 to 100

101 to 120

> 120

Estimated drawdown of groundwater level,

predevelopment (prior to 1961) to 2016, in feet

4890

Isleta

1.03

Groundwater-level contours—Shows altitude at which

 water levels would have stood in tightly cased

 wells, 2016. Dashed where approximately located.

 Contour interval, in feet, is variable. Datum is North American

 Vertical Datum of 1988

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BERNALILLO COUNTY

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34.77

Paseo

Bear Canyon ArroyoBear Canyon Arroyo

Tijeras Arroyo

Rio

Grande

Arroyo de las Calabacillas

KIRTLAND AIR 

FORCE BASE

ALBUQUERQUE

RIO RANCHO

Sandia Mountains

Westgate

350244106450202

Garfield

350706106390302 350706106390302

350638106413702 50638106413702

West Bluff t Bluff

35005610 350056106370102 6370102

Montessa

350534106354702

Del Sol

Matheson

350653106311602 0653106311602

Matheson

Nor Este

351114106330602

350910106414802 350910106414802

Sierra Vista

Isleta

1.03

Rio Bravo

5.88

Monataño Monataño

15.12

37.9

IMW B

Lincoln

351515106410402

Faults from Connell (2006) and Minor and Hudson (2006)

Military base from U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Census Bureau (Geography Division)

Streams delineated from 2010 lidar (Caerllion Thomas, Middle Rio Grande Council of Governments, written commun., 2017)

State Plane New Mexico Central (U.S. feet) projection

North American Datum of 1983 (2011) and North American Vertical Datum of 1988

106°45' 106°40' 106°35' 106°30'

35°15'

35°10'

35°5'

35°0'

0 3 6 MILES

0 3 6 KILOMETERS

NEW MEXICO

Middle

Rio Grande

Basin

Study area