PORTALES, NM — Area lawmakers gave local leaders their blessing to push forward with a major water project in New Mexico, the Portales News-Tribune reported.
Two local mayors — Clovis' David Lansford and Portales' Orlando Ortega — briefed area lawmakers on the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System, also referred to as the Ute Water Pipeline Project, on Jan. 28. The project would benefit cities across a wide plain of eastern New Mexico, including those in Quay, Curry and Roosevelt counties, the article said.
The project — expected to cost $300 million — would be funded through federal, state and local resources. But 80 percent of the funding would come from the federal government, the paper reported.
Lansford said he expected a bill, which would include state funding for the project, would be voted on this session, according to the article.
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