Tuesday, February 27,1990
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Supreme Court ends water dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su
preme Court Monday closed out a
16-year-old dispute between New
Mexico and Texas, approving New
Mexico’s agreement to pay Texas
Sl4 million for past violations of an
agreement between the two states.
“We will deliver the money on
March l,” New Mexico State Engi
neer Steve Reynolds said.
The justices unanimously ac
cepted the payment suggested by
special master Charles J. Meyers and
previously agreed to by lawyers for
both states.
The high court in 1987 had ruled
Texas was entitled to either money
or extra water as compensation for
New Mexico’s past violations of the
water-use agreement, the Pecos
River Compact.
The dispute began in 1974, when
Texas sought to sue New Mexico in
the Supreme Court. A year later, the
court agreed to hear the case even
though it had not previously been
aired in a lower court.
New Mexico’s lawyers did not dis
agree that a 340,100 acre-feet water
shortfall occurred in Texas from
1950 through 1983. But they ini
tially objected to paying any com
pensation retroactively.
Meyers, appointed by the justices
to supervise the lawsuit between the
two states, originally recommended
New Mexico pay back about 34,000
acre-feet of water a year for 10
years. An acre-foot is equal to the
amount of water required to cover
an acre to the depth of one foot.
In 1987 the court said Meyers
should consider letting New Mexico
pay monetary damages instead.
Texas had sought up to $900 mil
lion in damages. However, the two
states last August agreed on the $14
million payment.
In a brief, unsigned ruling Mon
day, the court said New Mexico must
pay Texas by March 1 in final set
tlement of the dispute.
Texas has agreed to deposit $13.8
million of the money in the Texas
Water Assistance Fund of the state’s
Water Development Board.
That money is “to be used for ag
ricultural and irrigatiqn projects ...
and any necessary associated studies
in the Texas counties of Loving,
Ward, Reeves and Pecos,” the court
said. t
“In funding such projects and
studies,” the ruling said, “the board
shall give preference to projects and
studies affecting surface water irri
gators in the Red Bluff Water Power
Control District in the four desig
nated Texas counties, if appropri
ate.”
The court said Texas’ attorney
eneral could treat the remaining
200,000 as fees incurred by his
staff.
Police search for clues in theft
of auto batteries worth $2,200
T'fiieves forcibly entered the warehouse of Brazos
Oil and Supply Co. sometime during the weekend of
Jan. 27 and carried out 52 automotive batteries,
according to a Crime Stoppers report.
The report said 30 types of batteries were re
moved from the warehouse, on the corner of Main
Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in
Bryan. A company spokesman said all the batteries
were manufactured by Delco for late-model vehicles.
The loss has been estimated at more than $2,200.
Evidence indicates that at least two individuals
were involved, and that most likely the subjects made
more than one trip to haul the batteries away. Inves
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