Big water, small water version 2.0 (quickpost)
Today's post by John Fleck is worth reading - an update, or re-cap, on a plan to move water from the Fort Sumner area of northeastern New Mexico and pump it to Santa Fe. There's already a local version of this near Santa Fe, which I posted about long ago. Fascinating - let's call this the "big water" news of the year for the capital, or at least potential news. Folks along the lower Pecos River are not crazy about the idea, as is understandable. Colorado has already re-engineered its "natural" hydrology so much, it's tough to actually way what mountain trickle becomes the Arkansas or Colorado Rivers anymore.
The other update has to do with another transfer up in the Taos area, which you can read about in the Taos Daily News (probably in a couple of weeks) once a decision has been made. In the mean-time the commissioners have scheduled a meeting, this one found courtesy of the TVAA, with public notice posted below for those interested and able to attend:
The Acequia de Manuel Andres Trujillo Abajo and the Acequia de Juan Manuel Lucero Community Ditches will reconvene at a public meeting on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. at the Quail Ridge Taos Conference Room to make a decision on the Water Right Transfer application of Terrance Irion and Nikki J. Bryant.
It's really too bad that our eyes have equal-scale resolution, as it takes one micro-eyeball and one macro-eye to keep both eyes on the prize of water in the Southwest.
The other update has to do with another transfer up in the Taos area, which you can read about in the Taos Daily News (probably in a couple of weeks) once a decision has been made. In the mean-time the commissioners have scheduled a meeting, this one found courtesy of the TVAA, with public notice posted below for those interested and able to attend:
The Acequia de Manuel Andres Trujillo Abajo and the Acequia de Juan Manuel Lucero Community Ditches will reconvene at a public meeting on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. at the Quail Ridge Taos Conference Room to make a decision on the Water Right Transfer application of Terrance Irion and Nikki J. Bryant.
It's really too bad that our eyes have equal-scale resolution, as it takes one micro-eyeball and one macro-eye to keep both eyes on the prize of water in the Southwest.
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