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Residents urge action on lead pipe inventory and call to cancel license‑plate cameras
Summary
During public comment at the Jan. 5 Las Cruces City Council meeting, residents alleged that Las Cruces Utilities undercounts lead and galvanized service lines and urged the council to take corrective steps; another speaker asked the council to cancel the city's Flock Safety license‑plate surveillance contract and delete non‑investigative data.
Multiple residents used the public‑comment period at the Jan. 5 Las Cruces City Council meeting to press officials on water‑system transparency and surveillance policy.
Liz Rodriguez Johnson told the council she had compiled a list of six “maneuvers” she said Las Cruces Utilities used to minimize the number of lead or galvanized service lines that would need replacement under the EPA Lead and Copper Rule. Johnson alleged that the utility assigned non‑lead classifications to lines installed before the 1986 lead ban, invented non‑lead classifications without documentation, mischaracterized connector materials and left large portions of the city off the inventoried map. "Every 1 of these actions by Las Cruces Utilities removes for all practical purposes the effective properties from the list of properties…
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