Dear Lower Pecos Water Planning stakeholders,

Dear Lower Pecos Water Planning stakeholders, Thank you for your interest in and commitment to water planning in our state. Please read below and take the surveys linked in to the body of this email. This is a follow-up email to our email that Woods Houghton forwarded on May 22, 2017. For those of you who have already taken the survey about water planning boundaries, thank you. This email has an additional survey and background info attached we’d like you to take. The first survey regards the physical boundaries of the state’s 16 planning regions. As we water planning staff traveled the state to all 16 regions in the past three years to update the plans, we heard from various water stakeholders that they would like to see future changes to the NMISC’s water planning boundaries. We would like your input on this matter by your taking the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RWP-Boundaries. We encourage you to read the attached white papers first, as getting your informed feedback on the pros and cons of reshaping or modifying existing water planning boundaries based on aquifers and watershed helps ISC shape and improve its water planning program. The other survey has to do with the spreadsheet of Policies, Programs, and Projects list in the updated plans. As part of the process for preparing the Regional Water Plans (ISC, 2014-2017), each region developed a list of policies, programs, and projects, also referred to as the “PPP lists”. Today, we are concerned with what approaches should be used to update the PPP lists. Understanding that every region, and, thus, entities within the regions, is different and has its unique considerations when planning for water, we value your feedback. Again, we encourage you to read the white paper first, as your informed input will help the ISC continue to strive to improve its water planning program. The PPP list survey is available at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RWP-PPP-Lists I look forward to hearing your opinions and sharing the results of the survey with you! Thank you in advance for taking the time to read the attached white papers and take the surveys regarding ISC water planning regions’ boundaries and the process for updating the lists of Policies, Programs and Projects of the Regional Water Plans. In addition to the surveys, if you have specific comments or suggestions regarding these two areas, please communicate them with us. We’re asking that you complete the surveys by June 15, 2017. Pardon any duplicative emails. Let us know if you wish to be taken off this list. Best regards, --Lucía <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Lucía F. Sánchez Water Planning Program Manager NM Interstate Stream Commission 407 Galisteo Street Bataan Memorial Building Phone: (505) 476-5397