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SANTA FE – Amid a year of historic drought and low levels of water, the city and county of Santa Fe have drafted a new water-sharing agreement, which seeks to help maintain healthy water supplies for both governments as the supply becomes more tenuous in future years.
The Shared Pool Agreement, if approved by city councilors on Jan. 27, centers around the Buckman Direct Diversion, the water treatment plant that pumps water from the Rio Grande to the Santa Fe area. It’s co-owned by the city and county.
The agreement would allow the city to use some of the native Rio Grande water that goes unused by the county each year. In exchange, should Buckman become inoperable at any point, the county would have that water returned to them.
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Mark Herndon stands along the Santa Fe River that runs by his studio in Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
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A couple of years ago, when there was a controlled dam release, Richard Ellenberg started wondering what the city of Santa Fe’s flood plans were.
That thought stayed with him until a few months ago, so he decided to place a public records request with the city for its flood management plans for the McClure and Nichols dams.
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However, the results he got were anything but helpful. Instead, he received several redacted documents and a records request exemption citation stating that the city didn’t have to turn over documents due to the threat of terrorism. The Journal submitted a similar records request and got the same response from the city.
Some 200 dams in New Mexico are rated to be in poor condition, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. They are a disaster waiting to happen.
Crumbling infrastructure is avoidable, though, and legislators, the governor and our congressional delegation must do their utmost to lessen the danger. Find state and federal dollars dedicated to infrastructure projects and fix the dams.
This could save lives, as more than 170 of the 500 dams in the state have potential to cause âloss of lifeâ upon failure, the New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee was told last week.
Without funding and resources, the Office of the State Engineerâs Charles Thompson told legislators the problem could âturn into a catastrophe.â Thompson, chief of the Dam Safety Bureau, said the dams can be cleaned, updated and made safe. But the cost is expensive, at least $300 million.
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