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Giant water-pumping plan gets hearing
Company would pipe water from plains to Rio Grande
Updated: Saturday, 04 Feb 2012, 11:25 AM MST
Published : Saturday, 04 Feb 2012, 11:25 AM MST
SOCORRO, N.M. (AP) - A hearing is scheduled next week in Socorro on a proposal to pump what would amount to billions of gallons of water from the San Augustin Plains in central New Mexico.
On Tuesday, a hearing officer with the state engineer's office will consider motions to dismiss a 2007 application by the Augustin Plains Ranch commercial venture to pump 54,000 acre-feet of water from the basin.
The company proposes moving the water to the Rio Grande Basin, where it could be used or sold.
More than 200 residents are protesting the application. More than 80 are represented by the New Mexico Environmental Law Center and staff attorney Bruce Frederick.
He says the application doesn't comply with state law because Augustin Plains Ranch has failed to identify exactly how and where it intends to use the water.
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