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New Mexico Office of the State Engineer & Interstate Stream Commission
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The Office of the State Engineer is charged with administering the state's water resources. The State Engineer has authority over the supervision, measurement, appropriation, and distribution of all surface and groundwater in New Mexico, including streams and rivers that cross state boundaries. The State Engineer is also Secretary of the Interstate Stream Commission.

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  • Managing deliveries in the river basins in New Mexico is a critical function for the Interstate Stream Commission. Staff analyze, review, and implement projects in New Mexico and analyze stream flow, reservoir levels, and other data on stream systems.
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    over 2 years ago
  • Manual, discrete groundwater level measurements from a regional well network around the lower Pecos Valley of New Mexico. Depth to water measurements are collected annually in winter by Office of State Engineer, District 2 Office. Data here begin in 2011.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • NMWRRS provides on-line access to OSE water right files including electronic images of water right documents and downloadable well reports, driller license reports, point of diversion reports and subdivision reports. The system also provides a UTM conversion tool.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • Water Use Program inventories surface and groundwater withdrawals and depletions by category, county, and river basin. The bureau maintains water-use databases and analyzes crop, weather, and water-use data.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • Maps prepared by the Office of the State Engineer are available and can be accessed from the following gallery, by subject. For more information about accessing maps, email the GIS team
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • Hydrographic Survey Bureau and the Litigation and Adjudication Program staff gather all of the information used to legally describe a water right and record it in the report and associated maps filed with the court. All new hydrographic surveys are based on geographic information systems (GIS) technology and all field measurements are now done with global positioning systems (GPS) receivers.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • OSE/ISC maintains a network of stream, acequia, ditch and well monitoring sites that electronically transmits data values via radio and satellite telemetry and stores the data in a database. This real-time water measurement data is available for each active gage/well shown on select basin maps.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • Aquifer test index- December 2016- This index has been compiled from reports by consultants, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Office of the State Engineer, the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources and other sources. It is highly recommended that users of the Index check the data against the original publications. Interpreted results presented in the index are those provided by the authors of the test reports. Most references are available in the Office of the State Engineer library.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • The Public Water Suppliers (PWS) geospatial shapefiles are a dataset of non-transient PWS locations, their associated service areas, and the locations of their supply sources. This is a geospatial coverage of the approximate boundaries of public water systems in New Mexico.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • New Mexico Water Use by Categories, developed in 2015 by the Office of the State Engineer. These data represent estimates of water used in various sectors in New Mexico, provided here in several formats.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • Water Masters actively administer the distribution of water from stream systems on a daily basis. This site contains links to individual Water Masters and access to Water Master Reports.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • ISC measures groundwater levels monthly in a network of wells in and surrounding its Pecos Settlement augmentation well field in the Seven Rivers area.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • Acequias, or community ditches, are recognized under New Mexico law as political subdivisions of the state. Many of the state’s acequia associations have been in existence since the Spanish colonization period of the 17th and 18th centuries. Historically, they have been a principal local government unit for the distribution and use of surface water.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • Master link to OSE libraries, technical reports, and data about water issues produced by the Office of the State Engineer and Interstate Stream Commission.
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    Licence not specified
    over 2 years ago
  • The NM Office of the State Engineer (OSE) "Point of Diversions" (POD) layer includes well locations, surface declarations, or surface permits updated on a monthly basis. These data were extracted from the OSE W.A.T.E.R.S. (Water Administration Technical Engineering Resource System) database and geo-located (mapped). These data have varying degrees of accuracy and have not been validated. Data included in this dataset only includes PODs that have coordinates located within the State of New Mexico. This message is to alert users of this data to various changes regarding how this POD data is generated and maintained by the NM Office of the State Engineer. In addition, all attribute fields are fully described in the metadata, including descriptions of field codes. Please read the metadata accompanying this GIS data layer for further information. Any questions regarding this GIS data should be directed NM OSE Information Technology Systems Bureau GIS at the contact information given below.
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    over 2 years ago
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