Cobre Consolidated School District board member Gilbert Guadiana has filed two recall petitions in District Court, calling for both board President Ralph “Toy” Sepulveda and Vice President Frank Cordova to be removed from the school board. In the petitions, dated April 20, Guadiana and four community members who signed on to the petitions allege malfeasance, misfeasance and violation of oath while in office by both men. The petitions were filed …
A future sports complex in Santa Clara and the yet-to-be-completed but already fully paid for Cobre High softball and baseball field improvements were discussed at length at the Cobre Consolidated Schools Board of Education meeting Wednesday. The district’s elementary Veterans Day program video montage was also presented, and board members heard several financial updates. Hellas Construction will return to finish construction on bullpens, drainage and turf, said Deputy …
February 9, 2021
Size of Silver Acres sewage spill last month still unknown Written by Nickolas Seibel on February 9, 2021
(Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant)
Manny Orosco, Silver City Wastewater Treatment Plant supervisor, checks the inflow and outflow dials on the 1979-vintage machine that monitors the amount of sewage flowing into the facility as well as the amount of treated effluent that flows out. The top left dial tracks the influent, while the top right dial tracks the effluent that is pumped uphill to Scott Park Golf Links, where it is used to water the grass, and the bottom left dial tracks the effluent that is returned to the watershed.
Last week, Silver City and the New Mexico Office of Natural Resources Trustee announced an agreement that will provide $1.3 million to extend municipal sewer service to as many as 27 homes in the Indian Hills neighborhood currently served by individual septic systems. The approximately 3,900 lineal feet of new 8-inch sewer pipe will start where the Blackhawk Road sewer extension terminates a project also funded by settlement dollars along Cain Drive between Grandview Road and Blackhawk Road, then run east along Cain, stopping just short of Swan Street and also extending north up Arrowhead Road from Cain until just before Arrowhead takes a 90 degree turn. The town of Silver City will operate and maintain the system, which will also include a lift station to pump sewage to the existing gravity line along Cain just west of Grandview. ※We will waive the connection fee for one year” should residents choose to install at their own expense their own connecting sewer line, Si