0001| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 51
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0002| 43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003| INTRODUCED BY
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0004| PAULINE K. GUBBELS
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0010| A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011| REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT WITH THE COOPERATION
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0012| OF THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, NEW
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0013| MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE ENERGY, MINERALS AND NATURAL
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0014| RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES TO REVIEW AND
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0015| EVALUATE ALTERNATIVE WASTEWATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES,
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0016| INCLUDING CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS.
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0018| WHEREAS, population growth in New Mexico has resulted in
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0019| continually increasing demands for clean water, underscoring
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0020| the need for existing as well as developing technologies that
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0021| provide efficient, low-cost and effective water and wastewater
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0022| treatment; and
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0023| WHEREAS, the supply of ground and surface waters are
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0024| limited and are being adversely impacted by the increased
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0025| withdrawal and increased contamination from many sources,
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0001| including septic tanks; and
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0002| WHEREAS, approximately one hundred eighty thousand homes
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0003| and businesses use on-site sewage treatment and disposal in New
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0004| Mexico; and
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0005| WHEREAS, according to its ground water protection study,
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0006| in Bernalillo county there are some twenty thousand septic
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0007| tanks that adversely impact ground water; and
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0008| WHEREAS, the reduction in federal budgets for and
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0009| increasing attention to water quality underscore the need for
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0010| developing technologies that provide efficient, low-cost and
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0011| effective water treatment; and
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0012| WHEREAS, the use of constructed wetlands may provide a
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0013| relatively simple and inexpensive solution for controlling many
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0014| water pollution problems; and
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0015| WHEREAS, wetlands provide habitat, restrain floods,
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0016| moderate climate extremes, cleanse water like a filter and
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0017| provide many other ecological and cultural benefits; and
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0018| WHEREAS, natural wetlands have been lost to human
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0019| development at an alarming rate over the last few decades; and
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0020| WHEREAS, over seven thousand acres of wetlands between
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0021| Velarde and Elephant Butte along the Rio Grande have been lost
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0022| to development in the past fifty years; and
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0023| WHEREAS, more than one thousand communities in the United
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0024| States currently are using or developing constructed wetlands
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0025| as part of their wastewater treatment process; and
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0002| WHEREAS, these wetlands may be less expensive to build,
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0003| operate and maintain than mechanical sewage treatment plants;
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0004| and
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0005| WHEREAS, constructed wetlands are being used in wastewater
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0006| treatment situations ranging from individual septic tank
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0007| discharges to a twenty million gallon per day operational
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0008| system in Orlando, Florida and forty-three million gallon per
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0009| day system proposed for Beaumont, Texas; and
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0010| WHEREAS, constructed wetlands have been established in
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0011| various communities throughout New Mexico, including
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0012| Albuquerque, Corrales and Santa Fe, and these wetlands
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0013| demonstrate that we can replenish our water, lost habitats and
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0014| other ecological values through the use of constructed
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0015| wetlands;
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0016| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0017| STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the department of environment with the
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0018| cooperation of the city of Albuquerque, the university of New
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0019| Mexico, New Mexico state university, the energy, minerals and
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0020| natural resources department and other interested parties
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0021| review and evaluate alternative wastewater treatment
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0022| technologies, including constructed wetlands, to assist
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0023| communities, industries and agricultural enterprises to cleanse
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0024| polluted water and replenish lost ecological values; and
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0025| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the department of environment
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0001| and cooperating entities report any findings and
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0002| recommendations to the integrated water and resource planning
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0003| committee before its final 1997 meeting; and
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0004| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be
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0005| transmitted to the secretary of environment, the mayor of
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0006| Albuquerque, the presidents of the university of New Mexico and
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0007| New Mexico state university and the secretary of energy,
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0008| minerals and natural resources.
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0009| State of New Mexico
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0010| House of Representatives
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0012| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0013| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0016| March 7, 1997
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0019| Mr. Speaker:
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0021| Your ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE, to
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0022| whom has been referred
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0024| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 51
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0001| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0002| recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
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0004| 1. On page 1, line 12, after the first comma, insert the
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0005| words "BERNALILLO COUNTY,".
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0007| 2. On page 1, line 16, before the period, insert the words
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0008| "AS ONE ALTERNATIVE".
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0010| 3. On page 3, line 11, after the first comma, insert the
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0011| words "Bernalillo county,".
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0013| 4. On page 3, line 20, after the first comma, insert the
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0014| words "as one alternative".,
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0016| and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE
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0017| COMMITTEE.
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0019| Respectfully submitted,
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0024| James Roger Madalena, Chairman
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0002| Adopted Not Adopted
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0004| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0006| Date
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0008| The roll call vote was 10 For 0 Against
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0009| Yes: 10
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0010| Excused: Ryan, Salazar
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0011| Absent: None
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0017| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0018| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0021| March 15, 1997
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0023| Mr. President:
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0025| Your CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0002| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 51, as amended
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0004| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0005| recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0007| Respectfully submitted,
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0012| __________________________________
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0013| Michael S. Sanchez, Chairman
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0017| Adopted_______________________ Not
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0018| Adopted_______________________
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0019| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0023| Date ________________________
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0001| The roll call vote was 8 For 2 Against
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0002| Yes: 8
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0003| No: Davis, Lyons
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0004| Excused: None
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0005| Absent: None
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