Eric Head stopped along the banks of Little Turkey Creek in southwestern New Mexico to point to a pool with a log in it that formed naturally after the Whitewater-Baldy Fire of 2012 led to massive runoff that brought debris and sediment flowing down the stream. Over the past few years, The Gila/Rio Grande Chapter
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What happens next with the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project as an organization is anyone’s guess. If the political subdivisions that make up the Entity can smooth out their differences over the next several weeks, at least some of the original 14 voting members of the group that planned to build a Gila River diversion project could maintain an organizational framework that would serve as a “placeholder” …
April 7, 2021
Barring lawsuits, decision on diversion group’s fate nears Written by Geoffrey Plant on April 7, 2021
A new state law that’s set to take effect July 1 requires the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission to consult with the New Mexico Water Trust Board before it allocates any of the $80 million remaining in the N.M. Unit Fund to eligible water projects in the four counties of Grant, Hidalgo, Catron and Luna.
That’s an advisory role that had belonged to the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project, and it’s one the Entity may be prepared to fight over.
Anti-diversion bill heads to House Written by Geoffrey Plant on February 24, 2021
With the majority Democratic members of two key state legislative committees recommending in hearings over consecutive Saturdays that a House bill to sideline the Gila River diversion group “do pass,” the future of the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project has never looked so imperiled.
As the bill, titled “Water Trust Board Projects and N.M. Unit Fund,” heads to the House floor for a vote as soon as this week, N.M. CAP Entity Executive Director Anthony Gutierrez made an appearance at a work session for Grant County commissioners on Tuesday morning. Like all of the presenters at the work session, Gutierrez made his presentation by video. He began his talk with a disclaimer that everything he was about to say might soon be rendered moot by the passage of House Bill 200.