Santa Fe water reuse proposal worries farmers downstream

Santa Fe water reuse proposal worries farmers downstream

Santa Fe New Mexican
By Robert Nott

The idea of creating a water reuse plan based on returning treated effluent to the Rio Grande has been kicked around for decades. Under the terms of the San Juan-Chama Project — a complex, decades-old water diversion project that sends flows from the San Juan River in southern Colorado to the Rio Chama and then to the Rio Grande — city officials believe they have the right to build the pipeline.  The Buckman Return Plan was pitched as one of several possible solutions in an April 2017 water reuse feasibility study. Piping effluent to the Rio Grande would allow the city to treat more river water for drinking...