by Jessica Carranza Pino
El Defensor Chieftain
October 10, 2024

On September 23 Augustin Plains Ranch, LLC appealed the Final Order Granting New Mexico State Engineer’s Motion for Summary Judgment. The judgment upheld the denial of the application to pump 54,000 acre-feet of water a year from the San Agustin Plains basin.

The appeal will go to the New Mexico Court of Appeals.

The APR filed its first application at the end of 2007; public notice appeared in a December 2007 issue of El Defensor Chieftain. …