Abstract

Cochiti Reservoir Baseline Study:Using Multi-Data Sources to Manage Reservoir Operations
Track: Water Resources
Authors: John Peterson

Cochiti Reservoir was built as flood protection for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico between the years of 1965 and 1975. At 5.5 miles long and filled with nearly 63 million cubic ft. of material it is the world's eleventh largest earthen filled dam and retains a recreation pool of 1200 surface acre feet. This presentation will describe the activities involved in compiling historical aerial photography, terrain, and bathymetric data sets into File based Geo-databases for Cochiti Reservoir that are allowing for multiple types of analysis to be performed pertaining to the long term operation of this reservoir. The use of GIS technology is essential to this data management mission. Also using this newly compiled data with modern visualization software, hypotheses are being tested and previously unseen processes are now viewable. Several examples of these will be shown and discussed.