We are depleting the Rio Grande Basin faster and faster every year, the groundwater 15 times faster than the river waters, reports the first comprehensive study of consumption in the whole Rio Grande/Bravo Basin system.
Asset management plans are boring. Camelot dreams are not. We are still basing our choice of capital projects on "wouldn't it be nice" instead of "what is the state of our assets."
Do you think T or C and Williamsburg polycart customers should pay more so rich new homeowners at the Turtleback Mountain Resort can pay less to have their trash hauled and recycle for free? An expansion of the T or C collection center is proposed to accommodate them.
I link to an article by Laura Paskus, “Climate change, overuse send the Middle Rio Grande into ‘dire’ situation,” published March 20th by Source New Mexico.
I link to an article by two very long-term observers of water in New Mexico. They are factual, detailed, informed, careful, persistent, intelligent, public-minded people not motivated by private interests, money, power, or any ideology except public service. You need to hear what they say about your water.
T or C residents were clear, but city commissioners left it open whether the city will join the proposed private business/government alliance.
The Sierra County Commission balked on approving a joint powers agreement to create an alliance between government and private industries to seek funding for new infrastructure. The proposal goes to the Truth or Consequences City Commission next.
Rinse and repeat. The people's best interests take a back seat to businesses' development plans, with city councils' compliance and repression of public engagement and withholding of public documents.
Low land that saved the cost of putting in more lift stations may be the reason the City of Elephant Butte built its wastewater treatment plant within T or C's boundaries. Or maybe Elephant Butte thought it was county land? Now Elephant Butte wants the plant within its city limits.
Hospital's ownership and management changing despite insistence that its finances are better than ever.
I apologize for not getting this bit of news out until now when it is no longer new. Texas's lawsuit against New Mexico for allowing groundwater wells in our area to syphon off water in the Rio Grande that belongs to Texas may end in a settlement.
How many voters understood they were raising taxes when they approved the new flood control taxing district on the November 2024 ballot? How many voters understood there was already a 1.50 mill levy for flood control?
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