I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The Town of Bernalillo began injecting ferric chloride, an iron compound, into its water supply Thursday at two troubled arsenic treatment facilities, Mayor Jack Torres announced Thursday evening.
It is the Town’s latest attempt to bring arsenic levels down to federal and state drinking water standards, Torres said.
The effects of the iron treatments in combination with the Town’s existing aluminum-based treatment system will be tested for 24 days.
After 24 days, water quality lab reports will be analyzed to decide whether to use both iron and aluminum treatments, or to scrap the aluminum-based system entirely, according to a Town press release and a Corrective Action Plan prepared by the Town’s new water system engineering firm, Wilson & Company.
Former project engineer Ramesh Narasimhan operated the Town’s troubled water system between 2008 and 2010 without state approval and in violation of state law, according to the state Environment Department.
Narasimhan was fired by the Town in February.
