water, Colorado River; San Juan Chama Diversion
Audio file "Centennial Journeys" radio program 2012
Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs
Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives
New Mexicans figured out a very clever–if expensive–way to claim and use their fair share of the Colorado River watershed. Somehow, against many odds, it came to fruition in 1978.