Rainfall, Runoff, and Water-Quality Data for the Urban Storm-Water Program in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Metropolitan Area, Water Year 2004

Urbanization has dramatically increased precipitation runoff to the system of
drainage channels and natural stream channels in the Albuquerque, New Mexico,
metropolitan area. Rainfall and runoff data are important for planning and
designing future storm-water conveyance channels in newly developing areas.
Storm-water quality also is monitored in accordance with the National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. The Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority, the City
of Albuquerque, and the U.S. Geological Survey began a cooperative program to
collect hydrologic data to assist in assessing the quality and quantity of
surface-water resources in the Albuquerque area. This report presents
water-quality, streamflow, and rainfall data collected from October 1, 2003, to
September 30, 2004 (water year 2004). Also provided is a station analysis for
each of the 18 streamflow-gaging sites and 39 rainfall-gaging sites, which
includes a description of monitoring equipment, problems associated with data
collection during the year, and other information used to compute streamflow
discharges or rainfall records. A hydrographic comparison shows the effects
that the largest drainage channel in the metropolitan area, the North Floodway
Channel, has on total flow in the Rio Grande.

[Summary provided by the USGS.]