County's water plan is build on renewable resources

From the Santa Fe New Mexican :

Commissioner Harry B. Montoya

6/22/2008

"Santa Fe County has developed its proposed Conjunctive Management Plan for the Santa Fe Basin to manage its surface and ground water resources to the benefit of our community. An important component of the proposed plan is the use of renewable flows of the Río Grande instead of local groundwater resources. The county and its partners, the City of Santa Fe and Las Campanas, have embarked on a major surface-diversion project on the Río Grande called the Buckman Direct Diversion Project. Together the parties are investing more than $180 million in the BDD Project. Construction is scheduled to start this year and should be completed in 2011. The plan proposes that the county will rely on groundwater only as a drought reserve or back-up supply." more>>>>