Page 3 - River Master News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

On December 14, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Texas v. New Mexico, holding that New Mexico was entitled to delivery credit under the Pecos River Compact for water stored at the request of Texas that evaporated during storage. The Pecos River originates in New Mexico and flows south through Texas into the Rio Grande River. Texas and New Mexico are parties to the Pecos River Compact, which provides for “the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Pecos River” between the two states. In 1987, after several disputes under the Compact, the Supreme Court app...

December 15, 2020 06:21:55 am The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of  New Mexico, ending the latest chapter in a decades-old water dispute involving the Pecos River. The conflict involves how water is apportioned between New Mexico and Texas under an interstate compact first approved by Congress in the mid-twentieth century. Texas v. New Mexico centers around the Pecos River, which originates in north-central New Mexico—near Santa Fe—and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. In 1948, the two states authored the Pecos River Compact with the goal of providing for the eq...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of New Mexico in a dispute with Texas over Pecos River water. The Pecos flows through eastern New Mexico, including Carlsbad, above, into Texas. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal) Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal Not so fast, Texas. The U.S. Supreme Court handed New Mexico a victory Monday morning in a Pecos River water dispute with Texas. ..........

December 15, 2020 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday morning in favor of New Mexico in a water dispute case with Texas involving the Pecos River Compact. The court denied a motion to review the Pecos River Master’s decision regarding evaporative losses that occurred while New Mexico was storing water upstream for Texas.  After a tropical storm hit the area in September 2014, the state of Texas asked New Mexico to store water it would normally deliver to Texas under the compact in the Brantley Reservoir while Texas grappled with flooding issues related to the storm. Texas finally asked for...

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following two decisions: Texas v. New Mexico, No. 65, Orig.: The States of New Mexico and Texas are parties to the 1949 Pecos River Compact, which provides for equitable apportionment of the use of that River’s water by the two States. In 2014, Texas asked New Mexico to temporarily store water from the River that would otherwise flow into Texas in an effort to prevent flooding. New Mexico stored the water as requested, and when it released the water months later, some of the water had evaporated in the interim. The two States disputed...