We never have heard if the new wells were upstream or downstream of the farm who questioned this issue.
There is quite a bit of supposedly unknown water in NM. Aquifers which been largely ignored and undeveloped mostly in the remote rural areas.
What it amounts to is over time, most of the big landowners simply aquired more land and more land, because lots of land with just a little water was cheaper and easier to use, and certainly required less knowledge and ambition than really developing water on smaller parcels.
Many big places have not had a well dug since the 40's ( the last agri good times ) and many have not dug a new well for a 100 years.
Several large acreages with all kinds of water...with those foriegn boards of directors even today will budget managers water pipeline money that cannot be utilized because what is really needed, is a well so that there is H2O to put in a pipeline to start with.
Some of em are East Coast boards of Directors...some are NM oil companies who are smart enough to drill an oil well, yet on their ranches cannot seem to figure out that drilling also works for water wells.
thomasjames
· 1 year ago
Markw you are just spouting, do you have any kind of evidence for these comments?....Upstream or downstream??? Doesn't sound like you know what you are talking about.
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We never have heard if the new wells were upstream or downstream of the farm who questioned this issue.
There is quite a bit of supposedly unknown water in NM.
Aquifers which been largely ignored and undeveloped mostly in the remote rural areas.
What it amounts to is over time, most of the big landowners simply aquired more land and more land, because lots of land with just a little water was cheaper and easier to use, and certainly required less knowledge and ambition than really developing water on smaller parcels.
Many big places have not had a well dug since the 40's ( the last agri good times ) and many have not dug a new well for a 100 years.
Several large acreages with all kinds of water...with those foriegn boards of directors even today will budget managers water pipeline money that cannot be utilized because what is really needed, is a well so that there is H2O to put in a pipeline to start with.
Some of em are East Coast boards of Directors...some are NM oil companies who are smart enough to drill an oil well, yet on their ranches cannot seem to figure out that drilling also works for water wells.