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Residents press Santa Fe County to pause transfer of Rancho Viejo exploratory well water rights, citing risk to neighborhood wells
Summary
Multiple residents from Churchill Road, Rancho Viejo and surrounding neighborhoods urged the Board of County Commissioners to pause the county’s involvement with an application to transfer water rights to an exploratory well at Rancho Viejo, saying deep production could impair local domestic wells and calling for more study and notice.
Residents in neighborhoods surrounding the Rancho Viejo exploratory well pressed county commissioners to pause the county’s association with a proposed water-rights transfer that they say threatens local domestic wells. Dozens of residents testified during public comment about declining well levels, concerns over a deep exploratory well’s pumping capacity and the lack of advance notice to well owners.
At the meeting, several speakers from Churchill Road, Vista Ocasa and nearby neighborhoods described falling water levels in household and shared wells and said the 1,350-foot exploratory well…
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