| 2014
WATER GRAB NEWS December
23, 2014 -
Revision of the original APR application dated July 14, 2014.
Download
 JPL/NASA
Ground water study
NM
Governor Martinez accused of "Wholesale disregard for the law" December
11, 2014 -
Water
grab application sent back (Chieftain)
Water
privatization not a good idea - (letter in Chieftain)
The
Price of Thirst - a book report December
2, 2014 -
NM
Agency seeks for details on water proposal - Albuquerque Journal Or
download .pdf file here.
Questioning
Augustin Plains water grab 
(letter to Chieftain)
November
20, 2014 -
Questioning
Augustin Plains water grab
(letter to Chieftain) December
2 2014 - NM
Water and Natural Resources Committee Meeting minutes
Reports at the meeting:
120214 Eileen
Dodds Comments
120214 JPL-NASA
Study on Groundwater
120214 Water
Supply Vulnerabilities-Report
120214 Anita-Hand-Comments
to legislation
120214 APR
summary to legislation
031511 APR-
report to legislation
111614 Inman-
report -should taking be allowed November
5, 2014 -
State Will Continue to Review Pumping Plan -
With a major
legal challenge removed last week by the state Supreme Court, the state engineer’s
office can continue its review of an application by a private venture to pump
drinking water from Augustin Plains Ranch to determine if it meets state water
codes.... More in the Albuquerque Journal
Or PDF
version
Comments
on news article here
September
24, 2014 - Channel
13 report on Water Grab
September
22 - Residents
ask state Supreme Court to rule in Augustin Plains water grab case
092214-Writ
September
27, 2014 - Datil
NEPA clean water workshop poster September
22, 2014 -
Residents ask state Supreme Court to rule in Augustin Plains water grab case
092214-Writ
September
3, 2014 - 'Worse Than Anything Seen in 2,000 Years' as Megadrought Threatens
Western States.
More
here September
2, 2014 - water grab update -
From the New Mexico Environmental Law Center
comes the following summary of our situation:
Corporation believes new
application will get them all the water. Um, not so fast...
The
Augustin Plains Ranch LLC water grab case began because the Ranch, which is
owned by an Italian billionaire, seeks to monopolize 54,000 acre-feet of water
(enough to supply half the needs of Albuquerque) to sell to the highest bidder.
Thanks to our supporters, we were able to fight them. "We led the effort
to demonstrate that the application was unconstitutional," said Staff Attorney,
Bruce Frederick. Based on our arguments, the State Engineer and a District Court
Judge denied the Ranch's application. The Ranch appealed. However,
it appears the State Engineer is now working with the Ranch to deprive our clients
of their day before the Court of Appeals. The State Engineer has accepted a second
application from the Ranch. Although this second application is substantially
identical to the first, the Ranch and the State Engineer convinced the Court that
the Ranch's
appeal was moot.
The Court dismissed the appeal, sending us back to square one. August
21, 2014 -
August
21, 2014 - Oral Argument hearing
Hearing for August 21 has been canceled. 080714-Carol
Pittman Comments on the issue 080114-Supplemental
brief of Augustin Ranch
080114-Supplimental
brief of protestant - applees demonstrating this appeal is not moot
080114-Appellee
NM State Engineer's supplemental brief on mootness August
5, 2014 - The State Engineer is requesting that the
appeal hearing be
canceled; the Ranch is asking that the new application be considered and if it
is then the appeal hearing should be canceled; our
attorney requests that
the hearing be held as scheduled.
Related Documents:
Water-level
data for the Albuquerque Basin and adjacent areas, central New Mexico, period
of record through September 30, 2012
071714-
Augustin Plains Ranch press release
071514
- Company tries again to tap New Mexico plains for water 0714134
- Augustin Plains Ranch Application
Augustin Plains Ranch
(press release) Ranked Among The 'Strategic Top 100' List Of Priority Infrastructure
Projects In North America. ... Proposed water project in western NM recognized
for its legitimate purpose, carbon efficiency, job creation, and more. (Published
in Water
Online)
July
7, 2014 - Cashing in on water crisis Final
Report on Water Planning, Development and Use -
2014
News
article here
Or download
Members
of (the Martinez) administration routinely - and quite aggressively - opposed
measures designed to protect our water supply. Rest
of the story here. “If
you go to the western U.S., people are still in that mindset of trying to withdraw
as much water as they can, as long as they can pump faster than their neighbour."
-- Betsy Otto of WRI ...
The
rest of the story here
Sectoral
contributions to surface water stress in the coterminous US
For
Some in the Southwest, It’s Come to Selling Water to Fracking Companies
December
12, 2013 - Albuquerque Journal
Climate
change affecting Rio Grande water supply 1972
- HYDROGEOLOGY
OF THE SAN Augustin
PLAINS, NEW MEXICO An Independent Study Submitted
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science
in Geology (approx. May 1973 021310-Dems
Sell-out Dianne Feinstein Attempts End-Run to Hand California Water to Billionaire
Farmers October
22, 2010 -
Augustin water meeting Date,
Author unknown -
"House Bill 27 amends the Natural Resources Trustee Act " 072514-Groundwater
in SW (Colorado basin) disappearing
January
16, 2013 - Texas
files water lawsuit against N.M. April
17, 2013 - (Also read the comments)
Project
may move water to area April
7, 2013 (Rio Rancho Observer) Rep.
Tim Lewis: City’s water future may depend on new ideas
January
2011 - Water Heist in the Plains of San Augustin (Greenfire Times) Investors
leave blanks in plains water plans
(Letter - D Chieftain)
Keep
local resources under local control
(Letter - D Chieftain) | 
