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(Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant) Heart of the Gila Outdoor Equity Program educator Elysha Montoya, left, and Heart of the Gila Chairperson Patrice Mutchnick, pointing, led about 12 volunteers who came out to pick up trash in Cameron Creek in Santa Clara on Saturday. The event was organized in collaboration with the Santa Clara Action Committee. Grant Countians picked up a lot of trash this weekend: About 120 volunteers filled approximately 200 trash bags along U.S. 180 from Silver City to Hurley on Saturday, as well as along several creeks, in honor of Earth Day, which was April 22. The Gila Resources Information Project has been celebrating Earth Day throughout April, and in lieu of its usual big celebration in Gough Park, a few volunteers hosted a single information booth beside the Murray Ryan Visitor Center on Saturday. The booth served as headquarters for a Big Ditch cleanup project, a Continental Divide Trail scavenger hunt and information about migratory cl ....
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, ....