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Not so fast, Texas. The U.S. Supreme Court handed New Mexico a victory Monday morning in a Pecos River water dispute with Texas. The court’s opinion, delivered by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, says the court-appointed Pecos river master was correct in giving New Mexico delivery credit for water that had evaporated from Brantley Reservoir. The court denied Texas’ motion to review the river master’s decision. “Here, the water was stored in New Mexico at the request of Texas, so New Mexico’s delivery obligation must be reduced b...
The mass die-off of birds across New Mexico this fall appears to have resulted from a perfect storm of weather events, according to pathology results from a national wildlife laboratory. The U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin analyzed dead birds collected by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish in September. Game and Fish Director Michael Sloane said the bird analyses showed no evidence of bacterial or viral disease. "The best we can say is that the timing of the record cold, the...
When Charlie Overton's grandfather first arrived in De Baca County in the 1920s, he marveled at the fertile, tall grasslands that extended for hundreds of miles in each direction. Almost immediately, he knew he wanted to establish his own ranch on the land. "He wrote home his parents in Tennessee and said, 'I found my promised land,'" Overton said. Through the years, Overton's grandfather, his father and eventually he would see the ranch through decades of cattle seasons. And...
New Mexico and Texas attorneys painted differing pictures before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as to why water was allowed to evaporate in Brantley Reservoir near Carlsbad instead of being delivered to Texas under the Pecos River Compact. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation held water in the reservoir after Tropical Storm Odile inundated the region in September 2014. Reclamation released the water in August 2015. By that time, 21,000 acre-feet, or about 6.8 billion gallons, had evaporated. The court-appointed river master...
Cleaning up groundwater contamination is slow, complicated and expensive. And specific remediation at three military sites in New Mexico is also hindered by state budget constraints and limited staff, state Environment Department officials told lawmakers during a virtual briefing early this month. The agency’s Hazardous Waste Bureau is “operating on a shoestring,” with 10 of the bureau’s 35 positions still vacant, said Stephanie Stringer, director of the Resource Protection Division at the New Mexico Environment Departm...
Clovis' public water utility has decommissioned a "handful" of drinking water wells after finding levels of toxic "forever chemicals." The per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) may have leaked into groundwater supplies from nearby Cannon Air Force Base. For decades, the manmade chemicals were used in firefighting foam for training exercises on the nation's military bases. The utility, EPCOR, notified the New Mexico Environment Department and Clovis residents last week of an "extremely low presence" of the chemicals and t... Full story
