| Source | Basin_region | Method | Recharge [AFY] | Recharge [In/yr] | Recharge [% Precipitation] |
| Menking et al. 2003 [1] | EB (assigned to Manzano Mountains) Figure 1 (Columns K-R) | Recharge = Groundwater discharge - streamflow | | 0.21 | 1.7 |
| Shafique and Flanigan,1999 [2] | Estancia Basin | Recharge = playas discharge (recharge and runoff are positively correlated) | 22000 (direct recharge) | 0.17 | |
| John Schomaker & Associates, Inc. 1997 Unpublished report prepared for Torrance County, NM | Estancia Basin | Estimated using different recharge rates per unit length of basin boundaries | 37744 | 0.34 | 0-10% in Madera Group |
| Corbin,1999 [12], from [13] | Estancia Basin | Unknown | 37000 for full basin, including 13000 (Valley fill) | 0.11 | |
| Nuestro Pueblo web page | Estancia Basin | Unknown | | | 0.03 to 20 |
| Anderholm, S. 2000 [4] | Western side of Sandia Mountains | Chloride mass balance and Water-Yield regression method | 11000 to 38000 | | 0.7 to 15 computed for the mountain areas (see observations) |
| Anderholm, S. 1994 [5], page 24. | Santa Fe area | Chloride mass balance | | 0.07 to 0.09 | |
| Spiegel and Baldwin, 1963 [6] | Santa Fe area | Balance (R=P-Evt) | | (*) 0.57 average 0.7 La Cienaga 0.5 Arroyo Hondo | 4 |
| Lee Wilson and Associates, 1978 p61-p66 [7] | Santa Fe area | Literature review and streamflow records | | 0.28 | |
| Wasiolek, M., 1995 [8] | Santa Fe area/ Sangre de Cristo Mountains | Water balance using precipitation, evapotranspiration and runoff | | | 12.7% over drainage basin 8% along mountain front |
| McAda and Wasiolek, 1988 [9] | Santa Fe area | Unknown | | 0.05 to 0.5 | |
| Wilson. Guan 2004 [14] | Reivew of South West US desert environment | | | Recharge= 9*10E-9*(precipitation^3.72) [inch/year] | |
| Walworld et al, 2003 [16] | Reivew of South West US desert environment | Cloride and Nitrogen mass balance of desert soils | | Zero recharge in natural desert Enivironment of southwest during recent thousands of year | |
| Scalton et al, 2005 [17] | Amargosa Desert, NV and Higth Plains TX | Unsat zone water and cloride balance | | At rangeland ecosystem - negative rechage (i.e. upward flux in vadoze zone) <0.004 in/y. At dry agicultural lands recharge 0.35-1.26 in/y | at dry agicultural lands 2-8% of annual prec |
| Bredenkamp, 1990 [10] | Karst terrains | Rainfall-recharge relationship | | | |