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Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories

71. ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Reclamation, Other Agencies Coordinate Water Releases for Rafting

... Chama.     The utility's share of San Juan-Chama Project water comes from Colorado River water allocated to New Mexico under the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. The water is diverted into concrete-lined tunnels and ends up in Heron. Copyright ©2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This ...
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72. ABQJOURNAL NEWS: N.M. Senators Want To Push Navajo Water Settlement in Congress

... , home to part of the Navajo reservation, fears the agreement would set a precedent that would jeopardize its share of water in the lower Colorado River Basin, among other concerns.     A group of San Juan water users in New Mexico argues that the size of the deal is unfair because it divvies up a third ...
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73. ABQjournal: River of Last Resort

... , the state's various water users take less than 500,000 acre feet of San Juan water per year. Water unused in New Mexico and other upper Colorado River Basin states flows downstream, where for years it has been available to meet the needs of the growing populations in California and Arizona.     The ...
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74. ABQjournal: River of Last Resort

... , the state's various water users take less than 500,000 acre feet of San Juan water per year. Water unused in New Mexico and other upper Colorado River Basin states flows downstream, where for years it has been available to meet the needs of the growing populations in California and Arizona.     The ...
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75. ABQjournal: River of Last Resort

... , the state's various water users take less than 500,000 acre feet of San Juan water per year. Water unused in New Mexico and other upper Colorado River Basin states flows downstream, where for years it has been available to meet the needs of the growing populations in California and Arizona.     The ...
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76. ABQjournal: Domenici Seeks Money for Water Rights Cases

... , Taos Pueblo, area acequias and other users are parties; and another suit that would resolve the Navajo Nation's water rights claims in the San Juan River Basin.     The Santa Fe County plan, still under discussion by the parties in the case, calls for creation of a regional water system and has an ...
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77. ABQjournal: Around New Mexico

... Taos, Taos Pueblo, area acequias and other users are parties; and a suit that would resolve the Navajo Nation's water rights claims in the San Juan River Basin.     Plant Comments Sought     The Department of Interior has finalized a series of public hearings to gather comments on a coal-fired power ...
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78. ABQjournal: San Juan Water Expected to Meet Demands

... .     "There is likely to be sufficient water," Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne wrote in a June 8 letter to governors of the seven Colorado River Basin states.     Kempthorne's determination is a key step in the long process of settling who has legal rights to how much of the San Juan River ...
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79. ABQJOURNAL: Peabody, Consol Agree To Coal-For-Gas Swap

... rights to coalbed methane, oil and natural gas on 860,000 acres of land spread across West Virginia, New Mexico, the Illinois Basin and the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming.     The bulk of the coal reserves, 27 million tons, are located near Peabody's Federal No. 2 Mine in Monongalia County ...
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80. ABQJOURNAL: Farm Group Angry Over Richardson Veto of Water-Rights Bill

... call if the state cannot get the rights it needs to satisfy the compact. That would deny water to holders of newer water rights in the Pecos River Basin until New Mexico met its obligation to Texas.     Lopez does not believe it will come to that.     "It could potentially spell the failure of the settlement ...
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