The Village of Corrales will receive more than $1 million in federal funding to build a wastewater treatment system aimed at protecting local groundwater, Rep. Melanie Stansbury announced.
Stansbury, D-N.M., secured $1,092,000 for the project as part of a package of Community Project appropriations that cleared Congress last month. The funding will pay for the installation of wastewater treatment infrastructure throughout the village.
Village officials have long relied on septic systems, which advocates say pose a contamination risk to the aquifer that residents depend on for drinking water. The new infrastructure is designed to keep treated wastewater out of the groundwater and to recycle it for reuse, according to Stansbury’s office.
“These projects will deliver results for New Mexicans across the state,” Stansbury said in a statement.
The Corrales project was one of 14 federally funded initiatives Stansbury announced for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, spanning public safety, healthcare, housing and water infrastructure.
I guess Stansbury still thinks the people of Corrales want to be a tourist trap. Someone needs to talk to this GIRL I don’t think she knows what Corrale is about!! We all should talk to her, and sooner rather than later. John Tittmann
Tittmann1942@gmail.comuj
The history of this has taken many turns. Property owners were always resistant and stubborn about their property- their independence- and few understood how the natural harmful additives in stinky water required expensive major filtration systems. But regardless of how big and good their systems are- there were remaining agents in the water. Corrales sits under a manufacturing plant in Rio Rancho and all things good and bad flow downhill don’t they?
I personally can verify many (per capita) residents and family pets and animals dead by cancer over 30 years. Good people. Tumors. So for me… providing cleaner better drinking water and sewerage management is welcome.
To everyone who still say “ hogwash”…. Back at you! Stubbornness doesn’t save lies.