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Some New Mexico farms apply for pilot project to save water
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In this Sept. 1 file photo, the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project meets at the Grant County Administration Building. Seated, from left, are Allen Campbell, Howard Hutchinson, Bucky Allred, Vance Lee and Ty Bays. Executive Director Anthony Gutierrez is standing.
The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission
last week voted to defund the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project, the organization that was tasked in 2015 with planning and constructing the proposed Gila River diversion project known in federal statute as the “New Mexico Unit.”
The ISC, which serves as the Entity’s primary fiscal agent, also voted to “prepare a resolution to withdraw the ISC from membership” in the diversion group, which is otherwise made up of 14 ditch associations, soil and water conservation districts, municipalities and the counties of Grant, Luna, Hidalgo and Catron.
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New Mexico will request drought relief money from the U.S. Interior and Agriculture departments as the state endures one of the worst droughts since the 1950s.
More than half of New Mexico is experiencing exceptional drought.
Extreme drought across more than half of New Mexico has prompted water managers to seek federal relief for farmers and ranchers in the state. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
Water managers use that category to indicate widespread crop losses, reservoir and river shortages and water supply emergencies.
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Last month, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced an interagency working group that will focus on worsening drought in the West.
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By early April of 2018, the state s largest river, the Rio Grande, had already dried south of Albuquerque.
As much of New Mexico faces exceptional drought conditions, the Interstate Stream Commission authorized its chairman to ask the Department of Interior for financial support.
The commission approved delegating that authority to commission chairman during its meeting on Friday.
The chairman will work with State Engineer John D’Antonio to request funding for both long-term and short-term drought relief.
The short-term relief could be something like assistance for farmers, said ISC Director Rolf Schmidt-Peterson.
“Help them make it through this year so that the economic impacts are not so severe that they can no longer farm,” he said.
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