[Homestead] Sandy, what's the weather in your desert?
bobf
bobford79 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 18 10:13:17 EST 2008
New Mexico has complicated and specific water laws. There are attorneys in NM who specialize in water rights and conveyances. Unless he is a speculative idiot, he has found a legal way to do what he is doing. Find out how much money he contributes to the Democrat party. They do create legal loopholes for deep-pocketed contributors...............
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--- On Thu, 12/18/08, Leslie <cayadopi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Leslie <cayadopi at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Sandy, what's the weather in your desert?
> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 8:08 AM
> 40 and faint breeze here, didn't drop below 40 overnight
> in the deep southern desert of NM. Clouds and rain seem to
> have drifted north:-(
>
> About 200 miles north of here there is some European who is
> drilling super deep wells in order to send the water to
> Texas ! It is a significant amount of water, and will dry
> out all of the wells for the highland farms in the area and
> kill a few towns. He's getting around the laws by
> drilling deeper than the law covers. Personally, I think
> the entire area should figure out a way to file a suit for
> actually damages, theft of water or something. The area
> isn't a row crop area, but a more of a grazing area from
> what I could see.
>
>
> --- On Thu, 12/18/08, Bunjov at aol.com <Bunjov at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> From: Bunjov at aol.com <Bunjov at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Sandy, what's the weather in
> your desert?
> To: bobford79 at yahoo.com
> Cc: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org,
> dianedelaceppede at gmail.com, cvclifford78 at yahoo.com
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 9:07 AM
>
> Hi, Bob -
>
> Haven't peeked outside yet, but when I went to bed
> (several times) last
> night, the Mean Green Machine had maybe 5-6 inches of snow
> on it.
>
> I know that the 'romance' of snow is probably
> long-lost on all our
> listmates
> to whom it is business as usual, but I still marvel at it.
>
> One of my first thoughts, living where I do, is that the
> storm will be of
> benefit to the level of the groundwater, which has been
> 'steady
> droppin' every
> year. When I started coming out here, the water table was
> at 12' - now
> it's at
> almost 300'
>
> Our alfalfa farmers (few and getting to be fewer) and our
> dairies (even
> fewer than that) are gettiing the blame, but it's
> actually the developers
> down
> the hill in Victorville and points west who are drinking up
> every drop.
>
> The MWA, coupla years ago, went to a great deal of trouble
> (and public
> hoopla) putting in a pipeline that ends here in Newberry
> Springs, complete with
>
> two huge 'detention basins' which - a short time
> after the civic
> celebration of
> their completion - remain dry as a bone to this day. I
> drive by the
> installation almost every day, and all I see is two big
> empty ponds surrounded
> by
> maybe a mile of very expensive fencing that encloses -
> nothing.
>
> And I'm sure that the taxpayers of SB County are also
> paying for the 24/7
> maintenance of the little shack that houses the electrical
> and plumbing for the
>
> facility.
>
> We are so scattered out here. Fewer than 4,000 people in
> 117 square miles.
> That may be an awful lot to those of us like James and
> Jeannie (and I agree) -
>
> but this is not the norm.
>
> The County gets mega$$$ from the developers who are
> building in V'ville and
>
> Apple Valley, and we placidly pay our property taxes every
> year and still get
> blamed for over-usage, and there are regular Watermaster
> meetings and
> adjudications that threaten to ramp down our usage and also
> threaten to force
> us to
> install water meters on our wells -
>
> They do 'fly-overs' to see who's growing what.
> I consider that to
> be the
> ultimate Big Brother tactic, and it makes me want to whip
> out my Che Guevarra
> T-shirt, no matter what shape it's in (or what shape
> I'm in heh heh).
> I don't believe it.
>
> Well, now, I started out sending a message about the beauty
> of the snow, and
> have ended up in a regular rant.
> Sorry 'bout that.
>
> I guess I'm just waking up (again).
> Sandy
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/18/2008 5:21:59 A.M. Pacific Standard
> Time,
> bobford79 at yahoo.com writes:
>
> It's been drizzley here for two days, Vegas is getting
> snow, how 'bout
> you?
>
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