The Elephant Butte Irrigation District and the South Central Solid Waste Authority have partnered with the New Mexico Environment Department to offer three temporary opportunities for EBID members, farmers, and the public to legally dispose of tires. Help reduce illegal […]
Read More...Josh Buettner showcases the effective branding of New Mexico’s chile pepper industry in this video for the Market to Market section on Iowa Public Television. Featuring spots by Gary Esslinger, Treasurer/Manager of EBID and Hatch Valley producer Preston Mitchell. (Click […]
Read More...For Immediate Release Mesilla Dam Bridge Shutdown February 19-22, 2019 Las Cruces, NM Date: February 5, 2019 Contact: EBID 575-526-6671, Ext 1 As part of Elephant Butte Irrigation District’s Operation and Maintenance of Mesilla Dam, EBID will be performing maintenance […]
Read More...Notice: Mesilla Dam Bridge Shutdown January 21-25, 2019 and January 28-31, 2019 Las Cruces, NM Contact: EBID 575-526-6671, Ext 1 As part of Elephant Butte Irrigation Districts Operation and Maintenance of Mesilla Dam, EBID will be performing maintenance to the […]
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Register for the On-Farm Water Conservation Irrigation Efficiency Workshop to be held on the New Mexico State University Campus at Hernandez Hall, Rm 103 on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. For course Registration Details visit: professionaldevelopment.nmsu.edu/courses or call (575) 646-7852. Topics include […]
Read More...Farmers received a bleak forecast for the 2019 irrigation season at the December Elephant Butte Irrigation District Board of Directors meeting. Dr. Phil King, water resources specialist for the District, noted that total usable project storage currently sits at just […]
Read More...KRWG’s recent story on NPR (By MALLORY FALK NOV 12, 2018) As The Rio Grande Dries Up, Experts Look For New Water Sources “The southwest is getting drier. There’s less water to go around, even as more people are moving to the […]
Read More...Elephant Butte Irrigation District was formed in 1918, only two years after the completion of Elephant Butte Dam. Together they transformed a flood prone high desert watershed into an agricultural oasis and economic dynamo for the entire southwest region. This […]
Read More...EBID hosted a cross cultural water resource tour earlier this summer for a group traveling across the U.S. as part of the International Leadership Visitor Program. The story appeared in the June issue of Irrigation Leader. You can read the […]
Read More...As warming strains NM’s water supplies, “status quo” no longer works On the downstream side of Elephant Butte Dam, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation employees navigate a stairwell above the Rio Grande, passing scat from the ring-tailed cats that like to […]
Read More...NM’s reservoirs weathered this year. But what will happen next year? Right now, New Mexico’s largest reservoir is at about three percent capacity, with just 62,573 acre feet of water in storage as of September 20. Elephant Butte Reservoir’s low […]
Read More...By KAREN RAY For the Las Cruces Bulletin A short hike above the valley floor provides beautiful panoramic views of the Rio Grande winding its way south and a crazy quilt of late summer agriculture. […]
Read More...THE STORY OF HATCH GREEN CHILE An Austrian immigrant turned Hatch into a chile capital in the 20th century. In the 21st, his great-great-grandson takes it high-tech. by Deborah Busemeyer IT’S JULY 2003, evening. Twelve-year-old Preston Mitchell sits in front […]
Read More...Quantifying groundwater resilience through conjunctive use for irrigated agriculture in a constrained aquifer system Erek H. Fuchs, Kenneth C. Carroll, James P. King Fuchs–Groundwater Resources Manager for Elephant Butte Irrigation District, Las Cruces, NM 88001, United States Carroll–Department of Plant […]
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The following information is taken from a collaborative brochure produced by IBWC, EBID and other partners. Additional details can be found at the IBWC website The Rio Grande Canalization Project Restoring Riparian Habitat┬áalong the Lower Rio Grande In the […]
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Setting: Elephant Butte Irrigation District (EBID) is the New Mexico portion of the Rio Grande Project (RGP) in southern New Mexico and far west Texas,┬á providing for international treaty delivery by the United States to Mexico. This region of the […]
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