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The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District

University of New Mexico Digital Collections

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Title The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
Creator Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
Subject Water Policy - New Mexico - Law and Legislation; Watershed ecology
Description The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District website provides data about water use and evaportation, maps, project information and district news. The MRGCD helps irrigate 70,000 acres of cropland in the middle Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. The District was formed in 1925 to alleviate flooding, to reclaim waterlogged land by constructing drains and provide irrigation to farmlands in the middle valley. Its boundaries stretch 150 river miles from Cochiti to North Boundary of Bosque Del Apache...
Publisher Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico. http://elibrary.unm.edu/cswr/
Language English
Type text
Format text/html
Date 2004
Rights Copyright Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
Identifier http://www.mrgcd.com/ http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/NMWaters/id/3500

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