Buffalo Pasture definition
Examples of Buffalo Pasture in a sentence
The Pueblo, the United States, and the State shall consult and cooperate and, to the extent feasible, coordinate technical resources for the development and improvement of mechanisms to restore, preserve, and protect the Buffalo Pasture.
The Pueblo and the Acequia Medio del ▇▇▇▇▇ jointly affirm a shared interest in protecting the waters of the Buffalo Pasture and in the maintenance of the points of diversion identified below.
The intended effect of using the Buffalo Pasture Recharge Project and the Mitigation Well System will be to offset surface water depletion effects on the Buffalo Pasture and Taos Valley Tributaries, respectively, as well as additional effects resulting from the withdrawal of groundwater for mitigation purposes, and to shift depletion effects to the Rio Grande Segment.
This Settlement Model, which is fully documented in Attachment 3, represents the Taos Valley Stream System and can be used to calculate the surface water depletion effects on the Rio Grande Segment, Taos Valley Tributaries, and the Buffalo Pasture that have been or will be caused by any Taos Valley groundwater diversions.
The Buffalo Pasture is the natural wetland located to the north and west of the Pueblo’s traditional village area, as generally depicted in Attachment 1.
The Parties, therefore, agree to the following mechanisms to offset Buffalo Pasture Depletions and achieve the goals identified in Article 5.3.2.
The Overland Sheepskin Well, which is depicted in Attachment 10, is EPWSD’s well that has the most immediate hydrologic effect on the Buffalo Pasture.
No Water Rights Owning Party shall protest any application by the Acequia Madre del Rio ▇▇▇▇▇▇ y del ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Seco to replace, supplement, or deepen the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Seco Arriba ASR Project with a well proposed to be located within two hundred (200) feet of the proposed well locations as depicted on Attachment 10 unless the Settlement Model shows such replacement, supplemental, or deepened well would cause Buffalo Pasture Depletions.
As a result of EPWSD’s limiting its groundwater production capacity from existing ▇▇▇▇▇ and replacing a portion of that lost capacity farther away from the Buffalo Pasture, it will be necessary for EPWSD to construct new infrastructure to connect the ▇▇▇▇▇ providing the replacement production capacity to its existing water delivery system.
However, because of the location of ▇▇▇▇▇ in the Taos Valley, the Buffalo Pasture is affected by groundwater diversions, and due to the nature of the Buffalo Pasture, existing State Engineer permitting requirements cannot offset effectively the Buffalo Pasture Depletions resulting from groundwater diversions made from points of diversion located outside of Pueblo Lands.