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NMELC’s Reply to Augustin Plain Ranch’s Response re Motion to Dismiss

Today, Staff Attorney Bruce Frederick sent another legal shot over the bow of Augustin Plains Ranch. In February, Frederick submitted a Motion to Dismiss the Ranch’s application to appropriate more than 17 billion gallons (54,000 acre-feet) of groundwater annually near Datil, NM. His filing today is in response to the Ranch’s response to that Motion.

“The Ranch’s speculative application flies in the face of 150 years of Western water law,” says Frederick. “Its response to our Motion to Dismiss does absolutely nothing to change that.”

Learn more about the Augustin Plains Ranch water rights application case.