From SourceNM.com:
New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority and has asked the Third Judicial District Court to appoint an independent manager to oversee its operations.
The suit follows more than a decade of “mismanagement at the utility,” NMED states in a news release, including recent and repeated failed arsenic tests. As Source reported last week, tests the agency itself took at CCRUA on May 7 recorded arsenic levels at the Santa Teresa Industrial Park plant that violated the federal limit, marking the third overage recorded at the plant in recent weeks, although the other tests were from voluntary tests.
Kent Paterson has been covering the CRRUA’s problems for El Chuqueño:
Stay tuned! This story isn’t over yet.
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