Records, 1979.

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Records, 1979.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24686272

Collection consists entirely of 1979 correspondence regarding the current status of the ongoing legal battle between Texas and New Mexico over the allocation of the waters of the Pecos River.

4 leaves.

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7135975

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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New Mexico. Natural Resources Dept.

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Pecos River Commission

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Hayes, John W., 1938-

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Breitenstien, Jean S.

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Pecos River Compact Commission (Tex.)

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In 1949, Texas and New Mexico agreed to the Pecos River Compact which allocated the water of the Pecos River between the two states. In 1973, Texas filed suit claiming that New Mexico had violated the terms of the agreement in that between 1952 and 1972, New Mexico had failed to deliver more than one million acre-feet of water. In 1987, the Supreme Court determined that the delivery short-fall was 340,100 acre-feet. Texas then sought repayment of this amount of water delivered over a 10-year per...

Red Bluff Water and Power Control District (N.M.)

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Booth, Frank R.

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