Sample Projects-Water Treatment
Water Resources Alternatives Analysis – Gila River Watershed, NM
Zia was part of a multi-disciplinary project team developing the 40-year water master
plan for the Lower Rio Grande Water Users Association. The 40-year water master
plan addresses Dona Ana County and parts of Sierra and Otero Counties. The Interstate
Stream Commission and the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer required the study.
The project scope consists of: identification of existing water resources, both
surface water and groundwater; review of existing water usage rates and practices;
projection of future water demands; identification of future water resources options
to meet demands; analysis of impacts to consumer rates; formal public involvement
process; and, GIS mapping and AutoCAD use for development of resources and water
demands maps.
The project entails significant coordination with multiple local and state authorities
and agencies. In addition, development of a formal public involvement process has
included development of a project web page, numerous public meetings, formal and
informal presentations, and development of a project newsletter. The results of
the project will encompass the plan for how more than 200,000 residents will meet
their water needs for the next 40-years. In addition, it will establish how the
New Mexico counties surrounding the City of El Paso will coordinate with the City
of El Paso to meet the regional water demands within the Lower Rio Grande Basin.
The project entails the following activities:
- Identification of existing water resources both surface water and groundwater
- Review of existing water usage rates and practices
- Projection of future water demands
- Identification of future water resources options to meet demands
- Analysis of impacts to consumer rates
- Formal public involvement process
- GIS mapping and AutoCad use for development of resources and water demands maps
Lower Rio Grande Water Users Association – 40 Year Water
Master Plan Zia is providing services to the Lower Rio Grande Water
Users Association for development of the 40-year water master plan for Dona Ana
County and parts of Sierra and Otero Counties. The study is required by the Interstate
Stream Commission and New Mexico Office of the State Engineer. The project entails
the following activities:
- Identification of existing water resources both surface water and groundwater
- Review of existing water usage rates and practices
- Projection of future water demands
- Identification of future water resources options to meet demands
- Analysis of impacts to consumer rates
- Formal public involvement process
- GIS mapping and AutoCad use for development of resources and water demands maps.
The project entails significant coordination with multiple local and state authorities
and agencies. In addition, development of a formal public involvement process has
included development of a project web page, numerous public meetings, formal and
informal presentations, and development of a project newsletter.
The results of the project will encompass the plan for how more than 200,000 residents
will meet their water needs for the next 40-years. In addition, it will establish
how the New Mexico counties surrounding the City of El Paso will coordinate with
the City of El Paso to meet the regional water demands within the Lower Rio Grande
Basin.
Gadsden Independent School District- 40-Year Master Water
Plan and Water Rights Inventory
Zia is currently developing an inventory report of water rights owned
by GISD and a 40-year Water Master Plan. Zia personnel prepared a history of the
water rights, along with the current status of those water rights and wastewater
treatment at each of the schools in the GISD system; made recommendations for actions
to transfer ownership of some rights not currently recognized by NMOSE as being
owned by GISD, the need for taking action on putting other rights to beneficial
use and options for requesting EBID water rights for use in irrigation of school
grounds at schools within EBID. Zia also developed a system for tracking water use
for each water right and is keeping that list current as well as reporting meter
readings to the NMOSE. Zia recently completed an update of the GISD Water Rights
Inventory to reflect transfers and other changes in water rights made by GISD. Additionally,
an assessment of the potential impact of hydrographic survey findings for local
adjudication of water rights was developed.
Zia is currently preparing a 40-year Master Water Plan for GISD to determine the
student census projections and water demands at the various GISD facilities, analysis
of the methodologies for providing for those water demands based on current water
rights holdings and alternatives.