The Sierra County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution to create an Arroyo Flood District. A petition was presented to the District Court and a hearing scheduled so that the question of forming the flood district and names of candidates for the board can be on the ballot in November.
New Mexico water issues in the news: The U.S. Interior Department announces federal support for conservation measures at Elephant Butte Reservoir. The New Mexico State Engineer announces that his office will undergo a change in leadership.
Recent studies finding "forever" chemicals and plutonium in New Mexico's rivers and groundwaters indicate that our water pollution problem has reached crisis proportions.
The great artist Diego Velazquez painted royalty as they were, often blank-eyed and taken up with amusing themselves with court jesters instead of serious matters of state. There are Velazquez-like parallels with the supposedly democratic T or C city commission.
A new study provides needed specificity about the uses to which the Colorado's irrigation water is put in the river's basin, which includes New Mexico.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments regarding the legitimacy of the proposed resolution of the Rio Grande water dispute between Texas and New Mexico.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: The start time and allotments of Rio Grande irrigation waters for Sierra and Doña Ana counties were set yesterday. So why was the river running south of Caballo Dam over last weekend?
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Fourteen projects in New Mexico's Second Congressional District put forward by U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez will receive funding as allocated in the six appropriation bills recently passed by Congress and signed by the president.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Eighty-one community projects in New Mexico put forward by U.S. Senator Martin S. Heinrich will receive funding as allocated in the six appropriation bills recently passed by Congress and signed by the president.
