June 25, 2007--Pueblo to share water rights under settlement agreement (Indian Country)
The parties in two long-standing Indian water rights disputes are one step closer to settling their cases now that Taos Pueblo has signed an agreement to share its San Juan-Chama Project water with four other pueblos. Taos 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. Now, some of the water will go to the pueblos of Pojoaque, Tesuque, Nambe and San Ildefonso to fulfill a settlement agreement in the Aamodt water-rights case in the Pojoaque Basin.
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