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County utilities director outlines local water portfolio, conjunctive management and how developers secure supply
Summary
Travis Soderquist, director of Santa Fe County Utilities, told the board the county’s water portfolio is a mix of native Rio Grande rights, a small San Juan‑Chama allotment, developer‑acquired rights and access to the Buckman shared pool, and that county policy treats groundwater primarily as a supplemental, multi‑year backup through conjunctive management.
Travis Soderquist, director of Santa Fe County Utilities, told the commission the county utility maintains a mixed portfolio that includes native Rio Grande rights, a 367 acre‑foot portion of San Juan‑Chama rights assigned to the county, developer‑acquired rights assigned at the Buckman Direct Diversion, and access to the shared BDD pool that the city and county use for operational flexibility.
Soderquist described the county’s approach to “conjunctive management”: acquiring surface and groundwater rights and managing…
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