1. This deal makes no sense. It is illogical for Santa Fe to pay these exorbitant prices for importing water while they already have local resources.
2. It will it will impair existing water rights significantly.
3. It is not in the public welfare of residents in the Estancia Basin.
4. Existing local demands for water are already drawing wells down steadily.
5. Industry (greenhouses) will require water resources to stay in the Estancia Basin.
6. There is no hope for our sustainable growth if our water is exported from the Estancia Basin.
7. Santa Fe is only Serving Developers who want rapid and unsustainable growth by using our water.
8. Santa Fe already has ample water resources on hand.
9. The deal would mark the beginning of the end of the rural way of life that the residents of the Estancia Basin have chosen.
10. We have an equitable right to keep what our ancestors worked so hard to establish, water rights.
11. We must fight the tendency of water to flow to power and money.
12. The deal is inconsistent with our efforts to conserve water.
13.We are a beneficial use state and there is nothing beneficial about exporting water to Santa Fe.
14. We will fight to protect our way of life.
15. "Our public welfare" has been defined in great detail in 1999 comprehensive water plan and it specifically states that any exportation of water out of the Estancia Basin is not in our interest.
17. Currently Sierra Waterworks is only pumping less than half the water he is trying to sell to Santa Fe. He will have to drill wells and prove up on the other half.
18. Many Santa Feans oppose this plan.
Prepared by ERBA secretary Kevin Hale based on comments from Chuck DuMars and others.