Water-quality characteristics of the mound springs complex, Lincoln County, New Mexico
Myers, R.G., Allen, B.D., and Love, D.W., 2005, Water-quality characteristics of the mound springs complex, White Sands Missile Range, Lincoln County, New Mexico: New Mexico Water Research Symposium, Socorro, 16 August.
This poster presents selected water-quality characteristics of the flowing springs of the Mound Springs complex in the northern Tularosa Basin in White Sands Missile Range, Lincoln County, New Mexico. The springs and associated ponds are located in gypsum mounds above Quaternary alluvium on the floor of the Tularosa Basin. The Mound Springs complex is a group of seven flowing springs (North Mound, Main Mound, Meinzer Mound, West Mound, Dead Oryx Mound, Hare Mound, and South Mound Springs). The Main Mound Spring is one of the only four habitats of the White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa) in the Tularosa Basin.Though some of the flowing springs have more than one water analysis, only detailed water analyses for ponds at five flowing springs (North Mound, Main Mound (upper pond), West Mound, Dead Oryx Mound, and South Mound Springs) from one sampling event in 1996 are presented in this poster. The water in the seven springs is usually brackish. The dominant cations are calcium and sodium; the dominant anions are sulfate and chloride.The preparation of two publications in cooperation with White Sands Missile Range is currently in progress. New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources is working on a geologic report and geologic map at a scale of 1:24:000 of the Mound Springs complex and U.S. Geological Survey Mound Spring 7.5-minute quadrangle topographic map. The detailed hydrologic data, including streamflow, available from 1911 through September 2002 are being compiled for a USGS publication of springs and surface waters in the Tularosa Basin in White Sands Missile Range and Lost River/Malone Draw in Holloman Air Force Base.
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