Completed in April 2022 on budget and on schedule for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, this is the first design-build water treatment plant for the Jicarilla Apache and Navajo nations.
The 2009 Environmental Impact Statement for the $70.7 -million Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project determined that more than 40% of Navajo Nation households relied on hauling water to meet daily needs for themselves, their livestock and farms. Inadequate water supply also impacts the Native peoples’ capability of living and working outside the reservation town of Dulce.