Agency OKs funds for Gila diversion report Written by Geoffrey Plant on December 28, 2020
Two days before Christmas, the Gila diversion group got what it had been asking for, as the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission voted unanimously during its regular monthly meeting to approve a line item budget transfer of $25,500 requested by Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project, in order for the group to secure a ※technical compilation report.” Depending on who one asks, the proposed report is either a sensible coda to the failed attempt to divert Gila and San Francisco river water that played out over the past five-plus years, or a belated and possibly inaccurate preliminary report that should have been done in the early stages of the planning process. The N.M. CAP Entity is made up of representatives from a group of 14 ditch associations,