Irrigators have time on
their side in dueling Gila diversions
Silver City Daily Press
By Geoffrey Plant
Two separate Gila diversion projects were on the agenda of Friday’s regular
meeting of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, and the difference in
complexity between the two was stark...One diversion, proposed by the New
Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project, seeks to divert water under the
terms of the 2004 Arizona Water Settlements Act. That project has been beset by
delays with its environmental impact statement work, last-minute changes in its
plan and profound deadline complications. The second, fully designed,
shovel-ready diversion is proposed by the Gila Basin Irrigation Commission,
which seeks to replace the same pushup dam in the upper Gila Valley that the
Entity plans to replace, but with none of the Entity’s onerous National
Environmental Policy Act processes to go through
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