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The Rio Grande at N.M. 346 in June. About 12 billion gallons of stored water from El Vado Reservoir helped keep the river flowing in central New Mexico last year, but water managers won’t have that option this year. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New Mexico water agencies are urging farmers to think twice about planting crops in what could be a tight water year. The state faces a big water debt to downstream users, and a multi-year drought is taking its toll.
The Office of the State Engineer recommends “that farmers along the Rio Chama and in the Middle Valley that don’t absolutely need to farm this year, do not farm,” according to a staff report that Interstate Stream Commission Director Rolf Schmidt-Petersen presented to the Commission earlier this month.
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Agency OKs funds for Gila diversion report Written by Geoffrey Plant on December 28, 2020
Two days before Christmas, the Gila diversion group got what it had been asking for, as the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission voted unanimously during its regular monthly meeting to approve a line item budget transfer of $25,500 requested by Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project, in order for the group to secure a ※technical compilation report.” Depending on who one asks, the proposed report is either a sensible coda to the failed attempt to divert Gila and San Francisco river water that played out over the past five-plus years, or a belated and possibly inaccurate preliminary report that should have been done in the early stages of the planning process. The N.M. CAP Entity is made up of representatives from a group of 14 ditch associations,
New Mexico takes a victory in water dispute
Not so fast, Texas.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed New Mexico a victory Monday morning in a Pecos River water dispute with Texas.
The court’s opinion, delivered by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, says the court-appointed Pecos river master was correct i. For access to this article please sign in or subscribe.
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