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Water-Year Summary for Site 08353000

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Available Parameters
00060 Discharge(Mean)  
80154 Suspnd sedmnt conc(Mean)  
80155 Suspnd sedmnt disch(Mean)  

Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
08353000 RIO PUERCO NEAR BERNARDO, NM
LOCATION - Lat 34°24'37", long 106°51'16" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, Socorro County, NM, Hydrologic Unit 13020204, on left bank 300 ft upstream from bridge on former U.S. Highway 85, 0.2 mi upstream from Interstate Highway 25, 1.2 mi southwest of Bernardo, 3.0 mi upstream from mouth, and 18.0 mi south of Belen.
DRAINAGE AREA - 6,437 mi² of which 1,130 mi² probably is noncontributing.  
REVISIONS HISTORY - WSP 1512: 1941-42, 1944-45, 1946(P), 1947-49. WSP 1632: 1957. WSP 1732: drainage area. Drainage area was revised to a more accurate value on Aug. 6, 2020. See also PERIOD OF RECORD.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - November 1939 to current year. Fragmentary gage-height record and footnotes concerning no flow for the period September 1910 to August 1914, published in WSP 358 and 388, are in error and should not be used.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder with satellite telemetry and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 4,722.34 ft above NGVD of 1929. Prior to Jan. 24, 1969, at datum 3.10 ft higher.
REMARKS - Water year 2014; records good except for estimated discharges, which are poor. Water years 2015-2016; records fair except for estimated discharges, which are poor. Water years 2017-2018; records good except for estimated discharges, which are poor. Water year 2019; records fair except for estimated discharges, which are poor. Diversions for irrigation of about 11,500 acres upstream from station (includes 3,700 acres irrigated wholly or partly from wells). No flow part of the year.
EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD - The greatest flood since about 1880 occurred Sept. 23, 1929, from information by local residents (discharge, about 35,000 ft³/s, estimated on basis of peak at Rio Puerco). Another flood occurred Aug. 12, 1929 (discharge, 30,600 ft³/s, by slope-area measurement, from reports of New Mexico State Engineer).
WATER-QUALITY RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD - Water years 1947 to current year.
PERIOD OF DAILY RECORD - SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT DISCHARGE: October 1947 to current year
INSTRUMENTATION - Automatic pumping sediment sampler.
REMARKS - Daily suspended-sediment samples are collected when flow is sensed on this ephemeral stream.