The Bear Mountain Coffee House & Gallery (Hwy 60),
and CWB Gallery (Main St), both in Magdalena, NM,
along with Carol Pittman from Datil, NM. We're working on net/mail sales details.
Patience.
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More coming....an update on the state of the water grab
(waiting for court....waiting....) and other notes
of interest to those fighting the foreigners:
the Modena Organization,
and their perky, smirky little Project Director,
Michel Jichlinski,the only guy that anyone
from these parts ever dealt with who was a Con Man
of such grand proportions, involved in the theft
of millions and millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
He is, you might say, a "NEW MEXICO TRUE"
Eurotrash "celebrity." .
. Jichlinski made a pitch on behalf of the "water grab" this past March 26 to the Interstate Stream Commission. We're told there were lots of questions from the commissioners, and not many real answers from our foreign friend. Snake oil salesman. ******************** Someone from the area recently sent Representative Don Tripp, (Socorro, Catron, and Valencia Counties) a short letter, raising concerns about the "water grab by foreign investors" and asking to hear Don's position. We got to see the correspondence. Don's reply is below. .
. We should note: Don has been active in the issue for some time, and showed up for both our Coalition Fundraiser held at The Golden Spur Saloon in Magdalena, as well as our "Prayer Vigil for Rain & Blessing of the Waters" held at Montosa Ranch last June. He doesn't seek the spotlight though, and unless you go to meetings and events, or subscribe to news feeds from legislators, you're probably uncertain of what's what. That's cool. But Don is very cool. .
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"....New Mexico has the Western characteristic of too little water, which is one of the standard Western gripes. Another is that it is economically a colony, a producer of raw materials, much of the profits from which, including a considerable part of the profits of the cattle industry, are siphoned off to the East and West Coasts. The ultimate development of the state is to an alarming degree dependent upon the decisions of people to whom it is not home, is not essential, but merely an investment to be held only so long as it yields a good return." . Oliver La Farge, 1952 Anthropologist, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author .
Here's the second page of the LLC website, titled .
THE NEED
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New Mexico Needs New Sources of Water
The Rio Grande is dying. The river dries up totally in increasingly longer stretches and for increasing longer periods. Throughout New Mexico, cities, ranchers and farmers are forced to pump expensive and dwindling groundwater supplies. In the fall of 2012, the water level in the Elephant Butte Reservoir on the Rio Grande was only 100,000 AF — or 5% of capacity.
Elephant Butte Reservoir 1991
Elephant Butte Reservoir 2011
Saving the Rio Grande requires new approaches to water management in the basin. The Augustin Plains Ranch project will help alleviate this situation in two significant ways.
Global Warming will result in less snowpack, earlier snowmelt and more water lost to evaporation. Peak flow and total streamflow are projected to decline. Runoff from rain may increase and occur earlier in the season. By capturing and storing runoff and distributing it to the river evenly throughout the year, Augustin Plains Ranch will mitigate the impact of Global Warming.
The Greater Albuquerque Metropolitan Area and the Middle Rio Grande Valley currently rely on two sources for their water needs. The Santa Fe Group Aquifer, which is in large part being mined, and surface water from the Rio Grande and San Juan Chama (Colorado) rivers. Augustin Plains Ranch provides the basin with another source of water that would otherwise evaporate. To put it in context, it could replace the entire amount of river water currently taken by Albuquerque to the benefit of farmers, ranchers, habitats and endangered species.
We'll answer various realities here,
particularly "capturing and storing runoff and distributing it to the
river evenly throughout the year" and the eco-painting that
this can do a great service for habitats and endangered species
as well as farmers and ranchers.
I don't have time this minute to get into all the details now, but we'll gather up the arguments - (I have a hydrologist up for an interview about all of this a few weeks from now, upon his return from an overseas trip. Patience.)
But let me say this: anything that sounds too good to be true
is almost always a fraud, as attorney-generals from across the country can tell you.
Use your head. . OK, hold the science for a minute. Let's go to the economics. Michel Jichlinski, with a Masters in Economics from the Hebrew Uiversity in Jerusalem, should be a help here. But no,
NOWHERE is there mention of the COST of this water. What will people pay? What will you guys make? What's the taxpayers cut? There's no talk about it. It's shyster salesmanship at its worst.
It's all psuedo-science and saving the water from evaporation,
and this will save the day. "Just sign on the dotted line, sir. We'll take care of all the details." .
PROVE you can capture and store it! Prove the rainwater you'll be collecting is enough to make up for the pumping of 54,000 acre feet per year. Where's the STATS boys? You try to sell this crap without any evidence to back up your claims. You're a salesman with a poor portfolio Jichlinski. It's all a horrible idea. You need more than lies, bucko.
. They say they need approval for the project before any real testing could occur. If they get approval, it'll be too late to press the issue, they'll be off to the races - it's all nonsense.
It's all a scientific HOAX, put in a scare scenario.
(I made the maps bigger that they are on their site however.
Not to scare anyone, except myself perhaps. I love the Butte.) . But how collecting rainwater at their ranch will mitigate the massive pumping they envision, and how it is possibly going to mitigate global warming in the Rio Grande Valley is a "pipedream" of unbelievable proportions. These guys are quite possibly very familiar with some very dangerous hallucinogenic drugs. .
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To get a perspective on the Rio Grande, I'm putting up a
radio interview that was broadcast last Friday, 7/5, on KUNM-FM in Albuquerque, on a monthly program called
New Mexico People, Places, and Ideas.
The interviewee is Dr. Fred Phillips,
Director of the Hydrology Program at New Mexico Institute
of Mining and Technology - "New Mexico Tech."
The title of this show is
"Our Growing Water Crisis," and it's a half-hour long.
It's good.
It puts a lot of things in perspective. Like, do we want to imitate Phoenix? Please Doc, tell us it ain't so.... IMITATE PHOENIX? THAT'S A CHOICE HERE?
the LLC as a solution to anything, although he's well
aware of the scheme. We'll have more on all of this.
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. It rained a little around the area a couple of hours after the "Prayer Vigil for Rain & Blessing of the Waters" held at Montosa June 15. Then it stopped. Then it picked up around July 1, and has rained at least a little almost every day since. It's raining as I write this. [Update - July 13] The forecast for the next ten days across the state involves a lot of showers, flash flood watches, etc. Overall, there has been more mositure so far this July, (up to July 12), than there was for the first six months of this year, January - June. It's just ducky, as they say. We count our blessings. Gene Kelly had the right idea. .
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —As the village of Magdalena’s water shortage nears its second week, Albuquerque police and residents have decided to step up and help out.
The Albuquerque Police Department is asking residents to stop by the Prisoner Transport Center and drop off bottles of water, which have become the only source of cooking and drinking for so many in Magdalena.
There will be a mobile command unit available at the Coors Boulevard and Ellison Drive NW Walmart to take donations Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will also be a donation site at the Walmart located at Wyoming Boulevard and Academy Road NE on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“We just want to be a good neighbor here in New Mexico,” said Briane Dennison, APD Chaplain Commander. “Go down there and bless them with water… we’re looking to take two 25 ft. trailers full of donated water down to them.”
APD’s Operation Hope team also organized donations for Moore, Oklahoma after a tornado struck.
Using money from the Chaplain Unit Fund, APD has purchased two pallets of water. Since, Albuquerque residents have donated thousands of water bottles.
“It really shows the heart behind the badge,” said Dennison.
The deadline to drop off water donations is Friday at 8 a.m. If you’d like to donate money to the APD Chaplain Unit Fund, call 505-768-2131.
Below, Governor Susana Martinez talks about Magdalena's water problems with a KOB reporter.
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The new Augustin Plains Ranch LLC website, titled
"sanaugustinwater.com" - is a pathetic attempt to further
their PR campaign for the project. It's filled with nonsense,
and outright lies. Here's the photo and text
from their homepage:
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The proposed Augustin Plains Ranch water pipeline project, much like the San Juan Chama River Project before it, has tremendous potential to supply New Mexico’s middle Rio Grande Valley with an abundance of water for centuries to come. . The demand for water in our state already surpasses its availability, and the situation is becoming even more dire due to extreme drought. That is why the project’s supporters and sponsors are committed to developing this much-needed resource on behalf of all New Mexicans. This state-of-the-art, eco-friendly project will be unique, producing its own power for operation through hydropower and solar energy. But more importantly, the project will create a new, sustainable and abundant source of water independent of compacts with other states. . This will be accomplished by replenishing a massive, underground aquifer in western New Mexico with rainwater that is currently lost to evaporation. The project will provide water to New Mexicans where it is needed most, and will also improve river habitat and water quality in the Rio Grande. With support from local, state, and federal agencies as well as New Mexico’s local communities, this project can begin delivering this desperately needed water within five years.
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Well, golly. Here we are talking about the
Middle Rio Grande Valley, and we have a nice photo
of the Organ Mountains, FAR to the south of the Middle
Rio Grande Valley, down next to Las Cruces, in the MESILLA VALLEY.
Here's a map of what is, for most political and historical
purposes and definitions, the Middle Rio Grande Valley,
published by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History.
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Well, you can see what kind of ignorant fools we're
dealing with. They can't even illustrate their text correctly.
That picture is NOT from the area we're talking about. It's about a hundred miles south.
"Well, it does't matter. Not in the slightest."
Oh yes it does, our little moron. Our little PR pimp. This kind of BS is blatantly illegal.
It's misleading. It's bad advertising practice. A photo is the product in action, one might say. You're talkin' Middle Rio Grande Valley, and showin' Mesilla Valley. It's false advertising. Someone needs to report you guys to the Attorney General's Office. Maybe I will. Misleading people on WATER right now ought to be a hanging offense. . There might be a method to their madness. They'll have that used-car salesman disguised as an attorney from Las Cruces that serves in the State Legislature, Joseph Cervantes, crawling into bed with them, thinking he'll get some of the water moved south, to Las Cruces and the Mesilla Valley. That would be absolutely wonderful for the gospel of "growth" that Cervantes preaches in the public pulpits on behalf of the "best interests" of southern New Mexico. "Best interests" as defined by developers, agri-business, bankers, hustlers, and ignorant politicians. . Oh, I see what's going on here now. You guys are clever. But you're still breaking the law. Misrepresentation may be common at your office, but it doesn't fly too well if you get caught. . Small-town PR flacks.
Ignorant. Amateurish. Fraudulent.
Must be that bunch over at The Waite Company at work.
It's amazing. You'd think the foreigners would get
someone worth a shit. Hell, they've got the money. Or are they just too damned 'TIGHT' - still have the first buck they ever made. . You know the type.
The Scotch and the Jews have both had to suffer
racial stereotyping because of this very trait
among some bad apples in their population -
the cheap ones, the slow-to-pay, the greedy,
no charity (except when it's public),
no soul.
Cash is the sole/soul denominator.
The worst. The pigs.
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Anyhow, it's all as bland as can be and
loaded with misinformation. We'll take each
page and dissect it on the blog over time.
It's neat that I can just copy it, (and I have),
page by page, and we can all examine it, together,
and take a careful look at what they're
claiming - dissect the data. . They never put a copyright on the site. It's unbelievably stupid. It's a commercial site. I don't copyright because I want my material spread to the four directions. Not to copyright the company message seems strange at best, or incredibly dim-witted on the other end. What, was the company attorney on a bender? Who are these dismal failures? And who pays them? The masters seem as stupid as the slaves, and vice-versa. Why does the San Augustin Plains water issue draw such secretive, fraudulent, worthless, un-American, anti-American, shysters to the table? Who also refuse to pay for a good PR outfit. . What's wrong with these people? Too much good food and wine? Too much EUROTRASH life? (A cop told me that EUROTRASH is a new term in law enforcement for all the scam artists from EUROPA that enter the American scene for operations of all types. A new twist on white trash - this defines it geographically, trash from the Old Country - EUROTRASH.)
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Anyway, here's an example of show-and-tell with their site.
Para # 2 on their website homepage states:
The demand for water in our state already surpasses its availability, and the situation is becoming even more dire due to extreme drought. That is why the project’s supporters and sponsors are committed to developing this much-needed resource on behalf of all New Mexicans. This state-of-the-art, eco-friendly project will be unique, producing its own power for operation through hydropower and solar energy. But more importantly, the project will create a new, sustainable and abundant source of water independent of compacts with other states.
The LLC has been on this "green" and "eco-friendly"
campaign as of the last six months or so - they keep
coming up with new sales ideas. This one's a lie.
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Paragraph #3 states:
This will be accomplished byreplenishing a massive, underground aquifer in western New Mexico with rainwater that is currently lost to evaporation. The project will provide water to New Mexicans where it is needed most, and will also improve river habitat and water quality in the Rio Grande. With support from local, state, and federal agencies as well as New Mexico’s local communities, this project can begin delivering this desperately needed water within five years.
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Water
Water, water, water!
Water is essential for all life— --plant, animal and human life.
Water is clear Water is colourless Water is tasteless Water is transparent Water pours on Earth as rain.
Water covers about 3/4of the Earth's surface Water bodies are ocean, sea, lake, river Water can be had from wells by digging the Earth Water naturally occurs as mineral water as at spa.
Water is in liquid form Water is in solid form (ice) Water is in gaseous form (water vapour) Water is as snow and snowflakes.
Water is secreted from the body- -as urine, tears, perspiration, and saliva.
Water is a chemical compound Water is composed of two elements Water molecule contains— -one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms. Water boils at 212 degrees F or 100 degrees C Water freezes at 32 degrees F o 0 degrees C.
Water, water, water!
chandra thiagarajan
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I'll get back to this when I have time.
Right now I need to water the roses and sunflowers
Sometime this afternoon the water in the Village of Magdalena
is going to be shut off. The well is going dry, we are told,
and while there might be some temporary relief, the actual solution being discussed is a new well, deeper, and weeks
(months?) away We'll have more details up as soon as we gather more info. The National Guard is coming in with a water tank of potable water from someplace this evening. Other tankers, from New Mexico Tech and a private outfit, should be here sometime tommorow.
Stuart Dyson of Channel 4 in Albuquerque is roaming around the area, talking to residents and officials, trying to get a handle on what's going on here. The Channels 4 and 13 folks, as well as CNN, have either just arrived, or have already left with stories in hand. . As unfortunate as this is, it draws attention to WATER realities in this area, in this state. It could also bring attention to the San Augustin aquifer issue. It could initiate the process of exposure of who these misguided Sons of Abraham actually are. The press can be relentless. The press can get damned nosy. . The more Magdalena's problem is in the news, the more these media folks will dig, and when they see the "STOP THE WATER GRAB" or "TELL THE GUMBA NO AGUA" bumper stickers, well, maybe in time they'll start asking more questions. It's in their nature, as they say.
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If these foreigners were pumping the aquifer right now,
Magdalena would most probably be looking at a new well
a heck of a lot deeper than what's currently being discussed. Like hundreds of feet deeper. Ask the desert dwellers of Israel if they would allow a bunch of foreign corporate thugs to get their water; ask them if they'd allowsuch a hideous nightmare on their "God-given" land. Below: the Pool of Siloam, made famous in the New Testament, when the blind man got his sight here. .
. I am. I'm contacting the Israeli government tomorrow to ask for advice as to how to deal with water thieves, so we can forward it to Governor Susana Martinez. "Desert Dwellers" have much in common, especially with guarding their water sources from enemies, or so-called enemies. This is a water war, and the Israelis know a lot about this stuff. . None of these foreigners are so-called "Stakeholders." None of them live here. None of them give a rat's ass about New Mexicans, or Americans. They have passports from where? Israel, Norway, Germany? It's all about money. Big money. . The Project Director for the San Augustin project, Michel Jichlinski, got his Masters in Economics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He's also a proven thief, liar, and general con artist. He was the President and CEO at the Louis Berger Group, a federal contractor in Afghanistan and worldwide, when they got nailed for stealing millions of U.S. dollars by cooking the books, bribery, and cultivating a "culture of fraud" within the company, as the whistleblower put it. NAILED for the biggest fine ever for a war-time contractor. Thieves. And this guy was the "Boss" through it all. And now he's come to the Land of Enchantment. God save us. .
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Below: Darrell Petttis, owner of The Golden Spur Saloon
in Magdalena, gives Stuart Dyson an earful about water,
Since the Trujillo well in Magdalena went dry last Wednesday morning, various communities and agencies have been working with Magdalena city and officials to supply water to its residents.
“Today, we received water from the VLA and Alamogordo,” Marshall Larry Curly said Friday. “Each truckload of water is being tested to ensure chlorine levels are appropriate before water is being distributed.” Curly said that as of Friday water is being fed through the water hydrant at the highest altitude, off of Kelly Road, and it is flowing back into the city water system and providing water to many households. “We have put 26,000 gallons back into the system as of this morning, and will have 40,000 in by the end of the day.” Curly said. “Right now there is water down to about Sixth Street, and there should be water to Tenth Street by this evening.” According to City Clerk Rita Broaddus, the city has applied for and received an exploratory permit from the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer to begin searching for the best place to drill a new well. “What we need now is the money to drill,” Broaddus said. The city has requests for emergency funding through Community Development Block Grant emergency funding program out of Washington, D.C., the New Mexico Department of Finance Administration and the New Mexico Finance Authority, as well as the New Mexico Environmental Department. In the interim, the city is also working to bring back online the Spears Well, which was taken offline six to eight years ago because it did not meet new codes with regard to managing chlorine levels. There were also some plumbing and electrical problems with the well. “It only pumps 30-35 gallons per minute, so it is not a production well for the city,” Broaddus said. “For now, we can take the chlorinator from the Trujillo Well and put it on the Spears Well to ensure that the water is properly chlorinated.” The Trujillo well pumped 180-200 gallons per minute, before the well went dry. The city is currently working on the plumbing and electrical to bring the Spears well up to date, and then will begin filtering water from this well into the system. Curly said that porta-potties have been set up throughout town for residents’ use until everyone has water through the city watersystem again. .
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