Opponents of a plan to reduce groundwater pumping in the north-central part of the San Luis Valley renewed their arguments Monday that the proposal did not do enough to protect senior surface water users.

The Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust (RiGHT) has been awarded their second $1 million grant from the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) toward conservation of the Rio Grande corridor in the San Luis Valley. The funds were approved at the Sept. 9 meeting of the national Migratory Bird Conservation Commission.

Nobody knows “everything there is to know about San Luis Valley water,” but one of the goals of the Rio Grande Inter Basin Roundtable is to gather and disseminate as much information as possible.