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Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Nearly 20 farms in southern New Mexico are one step closer to receiving state grants to stop using groundwater for a year as part of a water management pilot project for the Lower Rio Grande. An irrigation ditch is filled with water for alfalfa fields in the Mesilla Valley just west of Las Cruces. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal) Grants considered by the Interstate Stream Commission last week ranged from $9,000 to $90,000, and totaled more than $500,000. The Office of the State Engineer has certified that the farms, trusts and corporations have va...

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...

Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal The low-flowing Pecos River in southeast New Mexico near Lake Arthur on Dec. 10 shows exceptional drought. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal) The Land of Enchantment could really use a white Christmas. All of New Mexico is experiencing some level of drought, according to the latest data from the U.S. Drought Monitor. The last time the state was entirely in drought in mid-December was in 2012. ................................................................ About 53% of the state is in “exceptional drought” status, the most severe level of drought. Gov...