Grant County Commission / Special Meeting – 11 March 2013

On 11 March 2013 the Grant County Commission met to approve a resolution supporting the “Deming Diversion Plan” for the Gila River – which would pipe water from the Gila River to Silver City, Deming, Las Cruces and apparently to Texas ultimately, to atone for decades of profligate water misuse and mismanagement in the Lower Rio Grand and more particularly in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Rio Rancho and other monuments to ill advised over development such as Las Cruces, the latest in a string of wannabe Phoenix, AZs.

The resolution is here.

Somehow, the Commission believes that this will avert the threat of usurpation of the waters of the Gila by the legislature, Interstate Stream Commission, Lower Rio Grand water rights stakeholders, the State of Texas and the Interior Department – so long as the Deming Diversion Plan is rewritten to suit the scenario they have in mind.

Public Input was not on the agenda but they apparently backtracked on that as the barbarians were right there at the gates.

This is not what democracy looks like, but it was what the Grant County Commission looked like today.

The Grant County Special Meeting of Monday 13 Mars 2013 will be aired this week on

• Tuesday & Thursday at 9am
• Wednesday evening at 8pm
• Saturday morning at 11am

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Grant County Commission Special Meeting of Monday 11 Mars 2013

Please note that the Commission abruptly recessed after their vote and it is presumed that they returned to address the other issues on the agenda which is posted here on the Grant County website.  In the event that the agenda is removed from the website, a copy of the agenda as resented on the website is here, and a copy of the printed agenda as made available at the meeting is here.

Additional coverage of the meeting by Gila Community Forum is here.
Caution!  Adult language!