Kate Nash has a cool story in the Santa Fe New Mexican today that includes links to multiple Web sites that people can use to track where the federal stimulus cash is being spent.

And, unlike many newspapers, the Santa Fe New Mexican site actually links to the websites in question. Other sites like the New York Times (just the reported news, the editorials and opinion columns do contain links) don’t include links even when they are referring to certain Web sites.

And New Mexico will be having a lot of stimulus cash coming into the state, according to the Albuquerque Journal: More than $3 billion.

And that doesn’t include “competitive grants.” From the Journal:

Hundreds of millions of dollars more could be awarded to the state through competitive grants, former Gov. Toney Anaya said Wednesday. He heads the state Office of Recovery and Reinvestment. 

“We’re being aggressive,” Anaya told the Journal. “We’re not going to have a reason to complain.”

New Mexico is coordinating local efforts to seek competitive grants for wind turbines, solar plants and other “smart grid” energy projects; broadband improvements; and new medical technology. Any money secured that way would be on top of the $3 billion already expected to arrive in the state, Anaya said.

As for those sites that Nash highlighted, I recommend go reading her story for the links.

Nash linked to a Santa Fe city page for the recovery funds, but I couldn’t find a similar Albuquerque page at cabq.gov. Am I just missing it?

And Nash mentioned the $27.5 million in water projects that were announced yesterday. Here is the list, according to a release from Gov. Bill Richardson:

The following is the list of Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund projects: 

Village of Floyd — Install treatment system for fluoride and arsenic — $250,000

Town of Bernalillo — Install arsenic treatment system — $3.27 million

Dona Ana MDWCA — Increase size of transmission lines — $450,000

Carlsbad — Replace water lines — $1.95 million

Farmington — Animas Street Waterline project — $2.09 million

Canjilon MDWCA — Water supply well, water treatment — $584,000

Carnuel MDWCA — Storage reservoir, pump station, distribution lines — $2 million

Rio Rancho — Reverse osmosis treatment for water well — $2 million

The Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund projects include:

City of Belen — Collection system upgrades — $750,000

Village of Eagle Nest — Wastewater treatment plant lagoon — $200,000

City of Elephant Butte — Sewer collection lines and interceptors — $1.5 million

Los Alamos County — Effluent reuse line — $150,000

Village of Logan — Wastewater treatment collection system — $1.5 million

Village of Questa — Design and construct collection lines — $1.2 million

City of Raton — Wastewater collection system — $220,000

City of Ruidoso Downs — Expansion of wastewater treatment plant — $2.9 million

Village of Ruidoso — Expansion of wastewater treatment plant — $3.2 million

San Miguel County — Wastewater treatment and collection — $405,000

City of Santa Rosa — Wastewater treatment facility upgrades — $1 million

Town of Silver City — Construct new digester cell — $600,000

City of Tucumcari — Wastewater treatment facility upgrades — $1 million

Village of Wagon Mound — Replace lagoon liner and effluent distribution system —$262,000