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 "headline": "Monitoring Network of the Groundwater Flow System and Stream-Aquifer Relations in the Mesilla Basin, Do\u00f1a Ana County, New Mexico and El Paso County, Texas",
 "datePublished": "March 12, 2015",
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     "name": "Andrew J. Robertson",
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     "text": "The Mesilla Basin monitoring program was established in 1987 to document the hydrologic conditions of New Mexico\u2019s southern-most, Rio Grande rift basin. The program\u2019s data collection and reporting is conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with local, state, and federal agencies. Hydrologic data collected as part of the monitoring program provide valuable information to better understand the geohydrologic system and to support efforts to update, revise, and calibrate basin hydrologic models."
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     "text": "Objectives\nThe objectives of this monitoring program are to document the hydrologic conditions within the Mesilla Basin and to establish a long-term continuous data record to permit the quantitative evaluation of the groundwater flow system and stream-aquifer relations."
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     "text": "Approach\nThe monitoring program includes: annual groundwater-level measurements at more than 150 wells, the real-time and monthly monitoring of groundwater levels in nested wells near the Rio Grande, the hourly measurement of water-quality parameters in the shallow alluvial aquifer, a microgravity survey to estimate groundwater storage changes, and discharge measurements made along the Rio Grande to determine gaining and losing reaches."
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     "text": "Concurrent Programs:"
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     "text": "New Mexico's Environment Department and the Interstate Stream Commission are working cooperatively to develop solutions to concerns regarding the quantity and quality of the water delivered to the State of Texas. Elevated salinity in the Rio Grande Project area, which extends from above Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico, to Fort Quitman, Texas, has long been recognized."
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     "text": "Lower Rio Grande Program"
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     "text": "The overall mission of the NM WRRI is to develop and disseminate knowledge that will assist the state and nation in solving water problems. NM WRRI administers research projects within a variety of disciplines but that specifically have a focus on water. Users and beneficiaries are local, city, and county government; local water agencies and water users organizations; state agencies (NMDA, NMED, NMOSE, ISC, NMSLO, NMDGF), federal agencies (IBSC, USACE, USBOR, USEPA, USFWS, USGS), and state universities in New Mexico."
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     "text": "New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute Program"
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     "text": "Recognizing the need to systematically assess priority transboundary aquifers along the U.S.-Mexico border, the 109th Congress of the United States enacted the \u201cUnited States-Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act\u201d in 2006 as Public Law 109-448. This law was followed by binational negotiations that led to the 2009 signing of the \u201cJoint Report of the Principal Engineers Regarding the Joint Cooperative Process United States-Mexico for the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program.\u201c This document, which was signed by US and Mexican Principal Engineers serving on the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), established the authority and framework under which personnel in the United States and Mexico could jointly study shared aquifers. Ongoing projects under TAAP represent a collaboration among the U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Centers and the Water Resources Research Institutes of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Furthermore, IBWC facilitates bilateral projects and collaboration with universities and federal agencies in Mexico such as the Comisi\u00f3n Nacional del Agua and Universidad de Sonora. Currently, identified priority transboundary aquifers include the Hueco Bolson and Mesilla Basin in Texas and New Mexico, and the Santa Cruz and San Pedro aquifers in Arizona. More information about the program, products and partners can be found here."
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     "text": "Pepin, J.D.; Robertson, A.J.; Kelley, S.A. Salinity Contributions from Geothermal Waters to the Rio Grande and Shallow Aquifer System in the Transboundary Mesilla (United States)/Conejos-M\u00e9danos (Mexico) Basin. Water 2022, 14, 33. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010033"
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     "text": "The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute\u2019s (NM WRRI) statewide program supports the state\u2019s water research primarily at New Mexico State University, the University of New Mexico, and New Mexico Tech. Research is conducted primarily by faculty and students within the departmental structure of each New Mexico university campus. In-house staff administers the institute\u2019s programs, conducts special research projects, and produces a variety of issue reports."
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     "text": "Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program (TAAP)"
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     "text": "Non-USGS Publications"
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     "text": "Robertson, A.J.; Matherne, A.-M.; Pepin, J.D.; Ritchie, A.B.; Sweetkind, D.S.; Teeple, A.P.; Granados-Olivas, A.; Garc\u00eda-V\u00e1squez, A.C.; Carroll, K.C.; Fuchs, E.H.; Galanter, A.E. Mesilla/Conejos-M\u00e9danos Basin: U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Resources. Water 2022, 14, 134. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14020134"
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     "text": "NMED and NMISC facilitated the formation of Rio Grande Salinity Management Coalition consisting of water managers, the Rio Grande Compact Commission, and water user groups from Colorado, New Mexico and Texas that are actively working together to reduce and manage salinity in the Rio Grande Project area. In 2009 NMED, ISC, and the US Army Corps of Engineers completed the first phase of a Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) Section 729 Rio Grande Salinity Management Program which included a geospatial salinity database; USGS Rio Grande Salinity Assessment Study; and Rio Grande Economic Impact Assessment study."
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