War over Santa Cruz Water Rights Pits Pueblos Against City and Acequias

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(SUNfoto by Sarah Welsh) La Mesilla Ditch members conduct their annual spring cleaning in April 2008. All water-rights owners on the Santa Cruz and Truchas river systems are named in a decades-old federal lawsuit which is finally moving toward trial this year, and will eventually settle the quantity and priority of rights for all owners.

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    Anyone with water rights in the Santa Cruz and Truchas rivers, and anyone who uses water in the Española Valley, will want to sit up and take notice of a federal court case that’s headed for trial later this…

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