Taos Pueblo signed an agreement this week to share San Juan Chama Project water with four Pojoaque Basin pueblos, helping move water-rights settlements to Congress.  The pueblo agreed to take less than the 2,990 acre-feet of San Juan Chama Project water originally set aside by the federal government for resolution of its water-rights claims with the Town of Taos and Taos Valley acequia groups. Some of that water will now go to the pueblos of Pojoaque, Tesuque, Nambé and San Ildefonso to fulfill a settlement agreement in the Aamodt water-rights case in the Pojoaque Basin. Settlements were signed last year in both the 18-year-old Taos Pueblo and the 41-year-old Aamodt water-rights cases. Both still need congressional approval and federal funding.

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