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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a settlement between Western states over the management of one of North America’s longest rivers. In a 5-4 decision, the justices ruled that the water ...
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The department also has received a $151 million loan from the New Mexico Environment Department's Clean Water State Revolving Fund — with $90 million for the wastewater treatment plant.
Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado, 583 U.S. ___ (2018), was a Supreme Court case argued and decided during the 2017 term of the Supreme Court of the United States.The case involved an interstate dispute regarding New Mexico's compliance with the Rio Grande Compact of 1938, an agreement which established a plan for equitable apportionment of the water in the Rio Grande Basin among the states of ...
Dexter is located in south-central Chaves County approximately 2 miles (3 km) west of the Pecos River. New Mexico State Road 2 passes through the town, leading northwest 17 miles (27 km) to Roswell , the county seat, and southeast 6 miles (10 km) to Hagerman .
This resulted in the Brantley Dam along the Pecos River being unable to hold all of the water and it was released downstream. [2] Texas then emptied 40,000 acre-feet of water from its Red Bluff Reservoir to accommodate the flow. New Mexico holds that the unused water counts toward Texas' allotment under the Pecos River Compact; Texas disputes this.
Water in the Rio Grande flows east in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on Monday, May 15, 2023. Water released into the river from Caballo Dam on Friday began to approach the Borderland for the annual ...
The Rio Grande Project furnishes irrigation water year-round to a long, narrow area of 178,000 acres (72,000 ha) [2] in the Rio Grande Valley in south-central New Mexico and western Texas. Crops grown in the region include grain , pecans , alfalfa , cotton , and many types of vegetables.