Flood control -- New Mexico

Abstract Headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District serves portions of Sandoval, Bernalillo, Valencia, and Socorro Counties. Records include official minutes from 1925 to1952, a 1940 economic survey, photographs from the 1930s-1940s and a videotaped documentary from the 1980s.

Scope and Content The collection includes minutes, publications, and reports. It contains the minutes of the first annual meeting of the New Mexico Reclamation Association, held in Albuquerque on December 10, 1943. The President was Oscar M. Love. Mayor Clyde Tingley gave the opening address. The minutes were published in brochure format, most likely to encourage new members. Two documents published by the Middle Rio Grande Flood Control Association in the collection are: ...

Scope and Content As of 1999 collection consists of records of the New Mexico State Auditor and its predecessors the Auditor and Territorial Auditor (1846-1998). Territorial records (1846-1912) include annual reports, administrative correspondence, financial records documenting court expenses and payments for bounties, reports on indigents and orphans, bonds for sheriffs and tax collectors bonds, and records of equalization taxes and rebates. Statehood records (1912-1998) include annual reports, and audit...

Scope and Content Collection consists of engineering drawings related to flood control and power dams in New Mexico. The following dams could be identified: El Vado dam, Chifflo dam, Ladron dam, Jaroso dam, Chamita dam, Jemez Creek dam. Also included are a number of unidentified construction drawings for what appears to be a military hospital. Several drawings have a written note "extra copy for S. Hess." Material is located with the map collection.