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State Engineer pauses groundwater permits

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Water is stored for future oil drilling southeast of Carlsbad. The state engineer has paused new commercial groundwater appropriations in three basins of southeast New Mexico to study the aquifer. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal) State Engineer John D’Antonio has restricted new groundwater permits in three basins of far southeastern New Mexico to study the impact of more wells on regional aquifers. The temporary constraints cover new commercial appropriations in about 2,000 square miles of the Lea, Capitan and Carlsbad underground water basins. State hydrologists need this “strategic pause,” D’Antonio said, to collect data and calibrate a model that can accurately predict how pumping affects the aquifer system.

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