Author: Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Pecos River
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Possible Improvement of Quality of Water of the Pecos River by Diversion of Brine at Malaga Bend, Eddy County, New Mexico
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pecos River
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Water for Peace: Water supply technology
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geohydrology of the Delaware Basin and Vicinity, Texas and New Mexico
Author: Steven F. RicheyPublisher:
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Category : Delaware Basin (Tex. and N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Water-resources Investigations Report
Author: Pecos River Project
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Considers (84) S.J. Res. 155.
Geohydrology of the Proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site, Los Medaños Area, Southeastern New Mexico
Author: Jerry W. MercerPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Bitter Waters
Author: Patrick DearenPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806154616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.
Bibliography of Geology and Hydrology, Eastern New Mexico
Author: Ann Finley WrightPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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