The city commission blithely and without question accepted a $7.8 million estimate to not fix Cantrell Dam, but to "breach" it, as well as to increase downstream channel capacity. Two years ago the estimate was $1.7 million.
Truth or Consequences has provided insufficient water pressure to the hospital, elementary schools and the vets home. What other businesses or facilities are suffering? The hospital and vets home paid for and fixed the problem on their own. Your public funds at work--double time.
The impending retirement of New Mexico's state engineer raises the question of whether it is time to reform state law requiring that influential officeholder to only have expertise in engineering when alternative green infrastructure approaches to water management hold such promise?
Emergency waterline repairs needed south of the hospital and radiating out from Veater Street are a year away. Final design and going out to bid will take that long. The fix will replace 17 percent of the city's water pipes.
It's a good thing students are on summer break. The fancy new roundabouts and the city's required relocation of its water and sewer pipes may be the source of pressure problems, or it could be that cluster of leaks resulting from the massive water leak on Arrowhead Street.
This series of events happening in Kingston this coming weekend were meant to be included in the previous posting. Please join the folks in Kingston and the surrounding communities for their Gila Wilderness Centennial festivities.
Head out to Kingston this weekend for poetry, art and song celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Gila Wilderness. An event brought to you by the Southwest Environmental Education Center, Sierra County Arts Council, and Gila Ancestral Homelands.
There are many places in this country we call home, where one can easily slip into being a community member of the land instead of the consumer. It is a refreshing reminder to escape the keep out culture of urban living and rejoice in such a wild place, the Catwalk.
The proposed use of so-called "produced water" for agriculture and industrial purposes in New Mexico is at odds with the world health community's growing concern about the impact of pollution on children.
T or C property taxes were supposed to more than double after citizens approved $3-million in general obligation bond debt for water, wastewater and road projects at the November 2023 ballot box. The state's Taxation and Revenue Department says it never got the word.