A new study on the hot springs may be useful to the City of Truth or Consequences in its protest against the Riverbend Hot Springs application to appropriate 400 acre feet a year more of hot mineral water. Find the study attached to the article.
Voting has started in the local elections, and for some reason, sex seems to be on some people's minds when they think of schools. But when you decide who to vote for in the School Board election, there is good reason why you should not be thinking about sex.
Today's intelligence: New Mexico District 35 Senator Crystal Diamond has a new name and surprise campaign finance clout. Plus: U.S. Department of Justice lays out its objections to a federal judge's recommended settlement of the Rio Grande water dispute between New Mexico and Texas.
In the 2015 litigation brought by PAWA members against New Mexico Copper Corporation's claims to ownership of over 7,000 afy, the Adjudication Court has granted the mine 184.2 AFY rights in wells it originally declared abandoned.
I give a biased but, I hope, interesting report of what happened this past week in the OSE hearing on opposition to the transfer of water rights for use at Copper Flat Mine. PAWA and the Ladder Ranch presented their cases.
The State Engineer's hearing of the protests against the application to transfer water rights to be used for reopening Copper Flat Mine will begin tomorrow. Here is an explanation of how that process will work.
A gleam in George Lotspeich's eye created the idea of Copper Flat Mine in the 1950s, and over the years, he was able to make millions with that idea, but not from mining copper. For over 70 years, it's been just that, an idea and not a mine.
No more well applications will be approved by the Office of the State Engineer in the Hot Springs Underground Water Basin, which includes a lot more than just the Hot Springs District.
