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Updated: 11:47 a.m. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | Posted: 11:46 a.m. Wednesday, June 29, 2011
DONA ANA COUNTY, N.M. —
If they don't get the water, the Elephant Butte Irrigation District is slated to close down for the season July 5, after slightly more than a month of irrigation. The season typically starts much earlier and ends in September or October.
The Las Cruces Sun-News reports there was no response from Santa Fe as of Tuesday.
The irrigation district has asked the state to hand over 100,000 acre-feet of water now in storage at Elephant Butte Lake.
Such a move allows water users north of the lake to store extra runoff in future years. But it also reduces the amount northern irrigators can apply to any water-use deficit they might face this season.
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