City Scoop: Las Cruces Area Will See Increased Focus on Water Management
City Grill
Matthew Thompson
Senior Vice President, Las Cruces Branch Manager
Bohannon Huston
While transportation, residential and light commercial projects remain strong in Las Cruces, Thompson says the area “will soon begin to also see major investments in how we manage and protect our water future here in southern New Mexico, and Las Cruces will be at the center of those.”
To that end, with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s (D) efforts to establish the state’s 50-Year Water Action Plan, “We will see elements of that plan take shape here in the Rio Grande valley,” Thompson says. “There will be a high priority on how we implement stronger conservation measures, apply stormwater retention goals, implement wastewater reuse and develop new groundwater sources that have been ignored in the past.” Infrastructure investments will follow with “one clear goal—to actively manage our surface water resources and groundwater aquifers in a more sustainable manner for future generations of New Mexicans to benefit from.”
“We certainly don’t want to look back and have any regrets about acting on our goals when we had the chance,” he adds. “The chance is now, and we need to act.”
