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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2002

A water commission in northwestern New Mexico has signed a contract with the Department of Interior that has some people wondering where the beef is.

Under the original contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the state was to receive 30,800 acre-feet of water. But the contract signed only calls for about 20,000 acre-feet.

The contract was signed as part of the Animas-LaPlata project, which Congress authorized last year after a 30-year long effort. The project was scaled back and repackaged as a settlement of the water rights of Ute tribes in Colorado and to help the Navajo Nation.

Get the Story:
Animas Contract Signed (AP 3/1)
Animas-La Plata contract signed (The Farmington Daily-Times 2/28)

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