| Documents The documents colected here have been posted in the order received, most recent first. That does not make finding the document you want very easy as there are ow more than 70 documents. Please let us know if you think of a better method. The New Mexico Land Grant Council The New Mexico Land Grant Council is an agency of state government administratively attached to the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration. It was founded in 2009 by statute and provides support to 23 land grants-mercedes in New Mexico recognized as units of government (political subdivisions of the state). See concept paper. Designing Democracy Around a Ditch Smithsonian.com series on water scarcity May 14, 2012 Acequias from the blog SantaFedia The free encyclopedia of Santa Fe, NM Spring Acequia in Garden of Eden A photo by John Hamilton Farr April 22, 2012 Colorado Water 2012: Acequia culture dates back a thousand years Here’s the Valley Courier’s Colorado Water 2012 series written by Lauren Krizansky. April 19, 2012 Acequia Culture: Community Management of Surface Water in Arid Lands Wondering About Water; a Biosphere by lily house-peters The history of the acequia culture in Sonora is particularly interesting due to Sonora’s unique status in the history of Mexico. ¡Viva la Acequia! In arid New Mexico, common water rights have endured for centuries an essay by Paula Garcia, NMAA By Jay Walljasper from the blog On the Commons SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 15 50TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 2012 INTRODUCED BY Gerald Ortiz y Pino A JOINT MEMORIAL REQUESTING THE NEW MEXICO ACEQUIA COMMISSION TO STUDY METHODS OF MUTUAL COOPERATION BETWEEN THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE CONSERVANCY DISTRICT AND ACEQUIA ASSOCIATIONS IN THE SOUTH VALLEY TO PROTECT ACEQUIAS IN THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. Taos Valley Acequia Association Newsletter - Summer 2011 Inside this issue: TVAA Board Acequia Task Force Acequia Lectures Update Bylaws Funds for Acequias Nuestras Acequias La Luz de Nuevo México: Rituals of Seasonal Change in Acequia Communities Posted on December 22, 2011 by davidfgarcia The New Mexico Acequia Association Foods of New Mexico Written by Paul Harden Friday, 05 August 2011 Copyright © 1999-2011 El Defensor Chieftain Taos Land, Light and Legend first place essay: El Río Pueblo By Lyn-Li Torres Pugh The Taos News, August 1, 2011 SACRED LANDS: WHEN THE ORDINARY BECOMES SACRED Norman Crowe University of New Mexico and University of Notre Dame 2011 Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Symposium ncrowe@nd.edu 50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2011 HOUSE BILL 117 INTRODUCED BY Miguel P. Garcia AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL DISTRICTS; CLARIFYING THE POWERS OF CERTAIN CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS OVER ACEQUIAS AND COMMUNITY DITCHES. HOUSE BILL 505 INTRODUCED BY Don L. Tripp RELATING TO WATER; ALLOWING FOR THE FILING OF COMPLAINTS FOR INTERFERING WITH AN ACEQUIA OR DITCH RIGHT OF WAY. Posted 2/16//2011 The Mayordomo Project A progress report from the New Mexico Acequis Association January 2011 Celebrando las Acequias_2010: Past, Present, and Future The Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University is pleased to announce that the Celebrando las Acequias_2010 archival documentation is now online! The Celebrando, a free two-day symposium held in Dixon, New Mexico in June 2010, was organized by acequia mayordomo, farmer, writer, historian, and community leader Juan Estevan Arellano. Monday, January 3, 2011 Declaration of Core Values of the New Mexico Acequia Association adopted by the 2010 Congreso de las Acequias Those Who Would Carry the Water by Mark Nepo This article will appear as the introduction in the forthcoming Fetzer Institute and Wilson Center publication, Our Shared Future: Environmental Pathways to Peace, based on an event cosponsored at the Wilson Center in January 2009. Posted 12/24/2010 Water Rights Management Software Now available from MaLo Designs "Managing the complex issues of your water association just got easier. The Acequias Water Management System provides association managers/volunteers with an easy to use database product that tracks all of your membership information. " Acequias de Común: The Tension between Collective Action and Private Property Rights John R. Brown and José A. Rivera Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property Bloomington, Indiana, USA, May 31-June 4, 2000 Water Matters: Acequias Author and date unknown National Science Foundation Award Abstract #1010516 CNH: Acequia Water Systems Linking Culture and Nature: Integrated Analysis of Community Resilience to Climate and Land-Use Changes This project will provide new insights into the relationships between traditional water management systems, communities, and landscapes. New Mexico State University Corner of Espina St. & Stewart Las Cruces, NM 88003 575/646-1590 LINKING
MOUNTAINS TO VALLEYS: EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF MOUNTAIN HYDROLOGY on
TRADITIONAL ACEQUIA IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
HARDING, Jevon J., Earth and Environmental Science Dept, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, jharding@nmt.edu and WILSON, John L., Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801 New Mexico State University Sustainable Agriculture Science Center at Alcalde Acequia Hydrology Research Project has published a number of papers regarding acequia / groundwater interaction Copies of the following papers, and others as they are published, are available here. Peer-reviewed articles
Other technical publications
For an interesting survey of acequias worldwide visit Acequia Europe 10 August 2010 New Mexico's Acequias: Irrigation and Social Organization OLLI WATER, FOOD & PEOPLE A Blog Intended for Enrollees in the Courses on Water, Food, and Population Issues to be offered at OLLI at George Mason University beginning Autumn 2010 Term. 30 July 2010 Spanish Water/Anglo Water: Early Development in San Antonio Charles Porter in the Texas Observer June 30, 2010 Charles R. Porter is an adjunct professor at St. Edward’s University in Austin and is a testifying expert in water rights, real estate and construction nationwide. His most recent book is Spanish Water/Anglo Water. Acequia: Water-sharing, Sanctity, And Place Sylvia Rodriguez (Author) (2007) "The story told in these pages is born out of the struggle of acequia systems to survive in a world where water scarcity and competition are no longer local issues but part of a global crisis." Available from Amazon Acequias, An Inovative Way to Save Water Jonathan Salazar (Junior Division) Jonathan doesn't say Junior Division of what, but this is an excellent site. Historic Waterways Keep Traditions Alive. by Kathy Pinto The Free Library by Farlex COPYRIGHT 2010 Organization of American States Copyright 2010 Gale, Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. ACEQUIA CULTURE: HISTORIC IRRIGATED LANDSCAPES OF NEW MEXICO Cultura de las Acequias: Paisajes históricos en el regadío Nuevo Mexicano José A. Rivera (University of New Mexico) and Luis Pablo Martínez (Consellería de Cultura i Educació, Generalitat Valenciana) The Watershed Commonwealth of the Upper Rio Grande by Devon Pina Chapter 9 in the book: Natural Assets, Democratizing Environmental Ownership James K. Boyce, Barry G. Shelley, Editors Copyright 2003 Island Press Exploring the Dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems: The Case of the Taos Valley Acequias Michael Cox Submitted to the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University February 2010 Colorado’s 2009 Acequia Recognition Law: Punching a Hole in Prior? Lecture to the Water Center by Devon G. Peña, Professor of AES, Anthropology, PoE, University of Washington (March 2, 2010) Posted 3/30/2010 The E-Flow Challenge in an Acequia Irrigation System with Storage Environmental Flow Workshop by: Harold Trujillo, on President Acequia de La Isla c/o Morphy Lake – Ledoux Valley –Mora County & Vice Chairman New Mexico Acequia Association March 15, 2010 THE IBERIAN ORIGINS OF NEW MEXICO’S COMMUNITY ACEQUIAS José A. Rivera University of New Mexico Thomas F. Glick Boston University De la Tierra a la Cosecha (From Earth to Harvest) Sustaining the land, water, food and culture of Northern New Mexico (Brochure, pdf format) 2010 A collaborative project of the Taos County Economic Development Corporation, Taos Land Trust and Taos Valley Acequia Association Acequias By Brigette Buynak and Jerold Widdison (2007, 2008) Expanded and updated by Lisa Brown, Jerold Widdison, and Susan Kelly (2009) New Mexico State Unuversity This paper provides an excellent history and up-to-date status report on acequias in New Mexico SENATE BILL 204 49TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 2010 INTRODUCED BY Gerald Ortiz y Pino AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL DISTRICTS; CLARIFYING THE POWERS OF CERTAIN CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS OVER ACEQUIAS AND COMMUNITY DITCHES; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION. Communities join to protect water and sustain rural livelihood By Beth Griffin, Catholic Campaign for Human Development Volume 2009, Issue 4 Family farmers and ranchers in arid New Mexico share scarce water resources using communal irrigation systems developed more than 400 years ago. They do not want to abandon a practice that has sustained their people for centuries. Robustness and vulnerability of community irrigation systems: the case of the Taos valley acequias Michael Cox & Justin M. Ross, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN August 2009 Traditional economic and policy analysis theory has emphasized the implementation of private or public property rights regimes in order to sustainably manage natural resources. More recent work has challenged this approach by examining the strengths and weakness of communities of users who frequently manage such resources. This paper contributes to this literature by analyzing the acequia irrigation communities in northern New Mexico. Through statistical analysis the paper finds that the acequias’ ability to maintain a critical performance function, crop production, is aided by water sharing agreements and access to groundwater, and that it is hampered by property rights fragmentation and urbanization. osun.org Provides links to an extensive collection of documents related to acequias. Note that separate sections are provided for pdf, doc, and ppt files SENATE FLOOR SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL 486 49TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 2009 AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL DISTRICTS; CLARIFYING THE POWERS OF CERTAIN CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS OVER ACEQUIAS AND COMMUNITY DITCHES. Farmers' Insurance Company has published a teachers' aid, Keeping the American Promise Volume 2.2 contains an interesting history of the acequias in New Mexico. Unfortuately, this was published in three pdf files; Page 1 Page 14 Page 15 Originally published in 1998 New Mexico Water Rights Adjudication Data This web site contains specific data relating to New Mexico water rights adjudications that have concluded or are pending in the United States District Court, District of New Mexico. DEEP PERCOLATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON SHALLOW GROUNDWATER LEVEL RISE FOLLOWING FLOOD IRRIGATION C. G. Ochoa, A. G. Fernald, S. J. Guldan, M. K. Shukla New Mexico State University, Las Cruces Submitted for review in June 2006 as manuscript number SW 6507; approved for publication by the Soil & Water Division of ASABE in November 2006. DOCUMENTATION OF OSE TAOS AREA CALIBRATED GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL 1/11/2006 by Peggy Barroll, Ph.D. and Peter Burck, CGWP New Mexico Office of the State Engineer Romance, roots, and reality: Acequias sin parciantes? A report on the UNM-Taos / SMU lecture held 9/10/2009 published by Acequias and Adjudication, a Blog A sabbatical research blog on acequias, adjudication, and water rights in New Mexico WATER RESOURCES ASSESSMENT OF THE MORA RIVER Editors: Dr. Bruce Thomson Dr. Abdul-Mehdi Ali Water Resources Program University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 June 2009 The
Trans-Basin
Acequias of the Mora Valley, New
Mexico
Leslie R. Kryder WR573, Water Resources Program, University of New Mexico January, 2010 Juan the
Bear and the Water of Life/La
Acequia de Juan del Oso
(Paso Por Aqui Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage) by Enrique R. Lamadrid (Author), Juan Estevan Arellano (Author), Amy Cordova (Illustrator) Reading level: age 10 years and up Available from Amazon Books The
Bureau
of Geology and Mineral Resources, a program of
New Mexico Tech, in Socorro, has conducted significant research regarding the geology and hydrology of Taos County. This work can be found at: New Mexico Tech Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Taos documents Environmental & Food Justice - A BlogThe Challenges of Acequia Farming - Part IToday's blog marks the start of a new series by acequia farmers of the Upper Rio Grande bioregion. The series will focus on the everyday and long-term challenges facing acequia farmers. These challenges include legal, economic, technological, social, political, and ecological issues. Friday, July 31, 2009 The Challenges of Acequia Farming - Part II Cambiando aqua: Water, landscape, and place Sunday, September 6, 2009 Aguanomics the economics of water (and some other stuff) Water in the High Desert A guest post by Joanna Cornell 23 July 2009 Tiered Financial Reporting for State Entities SB0336 provides for tiered financial reporting for all governmental subunits, including acequias, based on the size of each organization as determined by annual revenue. A financial impact report (FIR) for the companion bill, HB828, is available here. This act becomes effective July 1, 2010 House Bill 40, which restricts the ability of municipalities to condemn water rights outside municipal boundaries, passed the state legislature in its 2009 regular session. The bill prohibits cities from condemning surface water rights belonging to farmers, acequias or conservancy districts. Governor Richardson signed this bill April 10, 2009 Rep. Vigil introduces acequia bill HB1233 A bill to allow the creation of acequia water conservancy districts has been introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives, by newly elected District 62 Representative Edward Vigil. Ritter signs acequia bill VALLEY COURIER STAFF REPORT April 23, 2009 The Canejos County Citizen February 26, 2009 A description of the terms of this bill is available from Coyote Gulch March 14, 2009 Colorado State Senate passes bill unanimously. March 24, 2009 More on this bill, and extensive background information on water law in Colorado and the West is available at the blog, Environmental Food & Justice April 7, 2009 Flood vs. Drip Irrigation; Which is better? This series of research papers concludes that in many cases flood irrigation is actually more efficient use of water as a result of deep percolation and aquifer recharge. The NRCS has responded! Roger Ford, State Conservation Engineer, sent us this letter responding to our request for comment. Send us your comments. We'll post them here. Here are two papers of interest from NRCS: Subsurface Drip Irrigation and IWM Lisa Skye has posted a comprehensive A Taos Timeline: Wide Open Spaces and Historical Places February 21, 2009 The Ecology of Acequias in Mora County: Patterns, Processes and Place-based Knowledge A project to be conducted
by the Center for Effects of acequias and groundwater levels on riparian vegetation, evapotranspiration, and restoration Project Director: Ciara Cusack B.S. ccusack@nmsu.edu Co-Director: A.G. Fernald PhD. fernald@nmsu.edu College of Agriculture and Home Economics Animal and Range Sciences New Mexico State University SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 18 47TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO SECOND SESSION, 2006 INTRODUCED BY Carlos R. Cisneros REQUESTING THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AND THE STATE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO EDUCATE STUDENTS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF NEW MEXICO'S ACEQUIAS TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE STATE. Acequia Improvement Process in New Mexico with Acequia Construction Program Funding  Natural Resources Conservation Service United States Department of Agriculture AG
Rules Against
Acequias Group
Albuquerque Journal, Tuesday, November 04, 2008 By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez, Journal Staff Writer This article provides a heads-up to all acequias regarding the importance of following open-meeting and related rules. Click here for a copy of Attorney General King's letter. “Acequias:
Their
Culture and Future,”
The UNM School of Architecture and Planning hosted an exhibition of measured drawings and photographs on the acequias and traditional Hispanic mill in La Cienega, New Mexico. For a copy of this report click here (pdf file, 4.8MB) The Role of Acequias in Water Planning by Wilfred Gutierrez, Chair, New Mexico Acequia Commission Originally published November, 1992 Posted 12/16/2009 A Joint Memorial Requesting the Acequia Commission to develop an official registry of Acequias in New Mexico The Legislature of The State of New Mexico, 2008 Understanding the Acequia Irrigation Communities of New Mexico as Social-Ecological Systems, A Proposal Michael Cox, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 21, 2008 De la Tierra a la Cosecha (From Earth to Harvest) Sustaining the land, water, food and culture of Northern New Mexico (Brochure, pdf format) 2008 A collaborative project of the Taos County Economic Development Corporation, Taos Land Trust and Taos Valley Acequia Association River,
Acequia and
Shallow Groundwater Interactions;
Importance of multiple water flow paths in irrigated agricultural settings (Report, pdf format), by Alexander G. Fernald and Steven J. Guldan, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces RESTORING NEW MEXICO’S ACEQUIAS, Financial Aid and Technical Assistance for the Restoration and Preservation of Community Acequia Irrigation Systems, published by the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, 2007 (Brochure, pdf format} Unearthing the Acequias Kenneth Francis Harvard Univesity November, 2004 New Mexico State Statutes; 2009 New Mexico Code Wikipedia on Acequias |
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