I guess I'd best comment. The last time Carl Turner was a Commissioner, and during earlier appointments, he requested repeatedly that water rights to the Rio de Los Pinos should be claimed by the C&TSRR for the Lava pump house and tank. Having run a title company in the past he knew his water rights law.
The last time around, I was with him at the NM State Engineer's office back in 2006, when we searched the files and were able to determine that no action had ever been taken by the Rio Grande or its successors to claim the Los Pinos water, even though the water was used for years for the Lava Tank, so a claim can and should be made.
Prior to that visit Carl had requested NM AAG Alvin Garcia take such action but nothing was done. Carl subsequently asked Leo Schmitz to do so, but to the best of my knowledge nothing has been done (he says he also asked Leo to do so some years back during Leo's previous tenure as ED).
This really needs to be done. Then, as Marvin Casias has suggested, a modern irrigation pump could throw the water up an irrigation hose to the tank. Carl also ascertained that there is a NM Rural Electric line running right by the pump house.
For those of you who are interested there is a comprehensive, 83-page, undated "Preservation/Restoration Study" of the "Lava Pumping System" by Gregory C. Roberts of virtually all aspects of the Pump House, Line, and Tank. I have a copy, and I'm fairly certainly that there is one at the Friends Library in Albuquerque.