Central to the deal is the idea that the Pecos river should stay as it was in 1947.
The problem is that so far this does not seem to have raised the flow in the Pecos.
He lived in the biggest house in Pecos, with a barbecue pit big enough to accommodate two steers.
The mountain passes and ridge tops of the Trans Pecos have the highest average wind speeds in Texas.
It is the 1948 Pecos River Compact that makes the river so complicated.
Washington- financed projects rebuilt damaged irrigation systems and tamed the Pecos River.
Officials asked residents in about 140 summer homes to evacuate as a crew of 340 battled the flames near the communities of Pecos and Tres Lagunas.
The editor of the Pecos Independent and Enterprise, Oscar Griffin, won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for being the first to report on Mr. Estes's shady practices.
The state Department of Health warned residents in the Pecos, Santa Fe and Espanola areas to prepare for smoke and take precautions by avoiding prolonged or physical activity outdoors.
Whatever water manages to get to Texas is destined for the town of Pecos, the last big farm community to use the river before it joins the Rio Grande.
Officials asked residents in about 140 homes, mainly summer residences, to evacuate as a crew of more than 400 battled the flames near the communities of Pecos and Tres Lagunas.
After Mr. Estes lost a local school board election the twice-a-week Pecos Independent and Enterprise began digging into his dealings, and its revelations were the beginning of Mr. Estes's downfall.
Pecos is famous for its cantaloupe melons though these rely on groundwater pumps rather than the river, which is here no more than a few isolated puddles among the hubcaps and beer cans.
The whole flow of the Pecos river is theirs to use if they need it for their allotted acreage of water rights the whole flow except the bit guaranteed to Texas, that is.
Now, they say the pilot program will enable them to systematically take out populations that are centered along the Canadian and Pecos rivers in eastern New Mexico, in the Bootheel and along the Middle Rio Grande, home to thousands of acres of irrigated farmland.
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The superintendent of the Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Dennis Karnes, can still remember sitting on a well-pipe as a boy and being launched into the duckpond as soon as the farmer opened the valve and natural pressure spewed several thousand gallons a minute of ground water against his legs.
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