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County reviews preliminary application from Canada de Los Alamos to become wholesale water customer; staff flags cost and water-rights issues
Summary
Commissioners received WPAC and staff reports on Canada de Los Alamos—9 request to become a wholesale water customer; WPAC favored approval but staff highlighted $11M+ capital costs and water-right transfer uncertainties.
Santa Fe County commissioners heard a staff briefing and Water Policy Advisory Committee (WPAC) recommendation on a preliminary application from the Canada de Los Alamos mutual domestic water association seeking to become a wholesale county water customer.
Travis Soderquist, deputy utility director, summarized findings in the WPAC and staff reports. Canada de Los Alamos currently serves about 24 connections from groundwater wells that the group says have become unusable due to declining production or contamination. WPAC recommended approval of the preliminary application and encouraged the county and association to develop a memorandum of understanding and proceed with engineering and grant-planning work.
County utility staff urged caution. A preliminary…
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