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(Daily Press File Photo by Geoffrey Plant) In this Sept. 1 file photo, the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project meets at the Grant County Administration Building. Seated, from left, are Allen Campbell, Howard Hutchinson, Bucky Allred, Vance Lee and Ty Bays. Executive Director Anthony Gutierrez is standing. The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission last week voted to defund the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project, the organization that was tasked in 2015 with planning and constructing the proposed Gila River diversion project known in federal statute as the “New Me...

April 7, 2021 Barring lawsuits, decision on diversion group’s fate nears Written by Geoffrey Plant on April 7, 2021 A new state law that’s set to take effect July 1 requires the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission to consult with the New Mexico Water Trust Board before it allocates any of the $80 million remaining in the N.M. Unit Fund to eligible water projects in the four counties of Grant, Hidalgo, Catron and Luna. That’s an advisory role that had belonged to the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project, and it’s one the ...

Credit NMFO Commentary: Community leaders and nonprofit organizations are applauding New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham for signing House Bill 200 into law today. The legislation,which was co-sponsored by Reps. Matthew McQueen and Nathan Small and Senate President Pro Tempore Mimi Stewart and Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill, ends the proposed Gila diversion project and fast-tracks the spending of the remaining approximately $80 million in the NM Unit Fund for priority water projects, creating long-term water security and jobs in southwest New Mexico (Catron, Grant, Hidalgo and Luna Countie...

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