Farm environment plans for Waimea Plains' landowners are earmarked for development, a move that may help tackle elevated levels of nitrate in the groundwater.
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Chase Golightly Created: July 26, 2021 04:41 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. This week’s Pay it 4ward recognizes a local bird rehabilitator who was recognized by a friend for her work over the last 20 years.
Mikal Deese owns the “On a Wing and a Prayer,” a nonprofit organization that has accepted hundreds of birds from across New Mexico. The birds are of all shapes and sizes with different types of injuries.
“One of them came in on the edge of starvation with a broken wing. Deese said. [Another] set himself on fire, got a spark from an electrical line… he just turned into a flash flame.
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Grape grower Brian Halstead says members of the Waimea Irrigators and Water Users incorporated society believe the council should not “continue to drag its feet” over the issue of nitrates in the groundwater. Tests of some bores in 2019, arranged by Waimea Plains landowner Cathy Hughson and fellow Tasman District resident Lew Solomon, also showed some nitrate levels exceeded the drinking water standards. The Richmond urban water supply is drawn from aquifers under the plains. In the 2019 tests arranged by Hughson and Solomon, that water supply had a nitrate reading of about 5.1mg/L nitrate-nitrogen, well below the drinking water standards of 11.3.