By Mary Alice Murphy
The New Mexico Central Arizona Project Entity held its February 2016 meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the Grant County Administration Center
No public comment was heard at the meeting.
Martha Cooper of The Nature Conservancy and alternate representative to the entity for the Upper Gila Irrigation Association presented a study of diversion structure options for the Cliff-Gila Valley, New Mexico.
"Some of its characteristics make the Gila River unique," Cooper said. "They include the variability in flows from 35,000 cubic feet per second to lows of 7 cfs. The low flows come in May and June after the snowmelt runoff is finished and before the monsoons arrive. These low flows are a period of stress for the ecosystem."