Summary
Santa Fe County has for years asked people who want to subdivide or develop land to limit the amount of water they pump from private wells. The county even requires them to submit meter readings to prove it.
But no one is monitoring how much water is being sucked from the ground or whether landowners are ignoring or upholding their promises.See the full content of this document
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Is Anyone Policing Water in Santa Fe County?
"They don't even know who is supposed to report, let alone what they are reporting," laments Roy McKeag, who lives west of Santa Fe.
Monitoring groundwater in the county, where many residents depend on private wells, has been a growing concern because of evidence...See the full content of this document
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