October 3, 2007--New Mexico works to make up water debt to Texas (Denver Post)
The $12 million Seven Rivers pipeline about 15 miles northwest of Carlsbad is designed to deliver about 20,000 gallons of water per minute from 13 wells to c, according to the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission. The project will help augment Pecos River flows by about 15,750 acre-feet a year, and is one of several actions New Mexico is taking to make up an estimated 10,000-acre-feet-a-year water deficit to Texas under the 1947 Pecos River Compact that assured both states part of the water. A 10-mile-long pipeline that will help New Mexico pay its Pecos River water debt to Texas is about half finished, and officials expect the work to be completed by December.
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