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BDD Citizen Board Member Interviews are Scheduled for January

The Interviews for the BDD Citizen Board Member are scheduled as follows:   January 21, Thursday 4 pm            Denise Fort  January 22, Friday 1-1:45 pm            Doug Sayre 2-2:45 pm            JC Helms Interviews will be held in the BDD Conference […]

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PUBLIC NOTICE: Seeking Citizen Member and Alternate Member for Buckman Direct Diversion Board

The Buckman Direct Diversion Board (“Board”) is seeking interested Santa Fe community members to serve on the Board. The Board is a Joint Powers Act entity consisting of the City of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County and oversees Buckman […]

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Water for Tomorrow and Beyond

Water data from USGS, Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2005. Table 6, Page 20; population data from U.S. Census Bureau, State Interim Population Projections by Age and Sex: 2004-2030. The Water World Water is vital to […]

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Water Saving Tips from WaterSense

Indoors There are lots of things you can do in your own home to reduce water use and get more from less. Just follow our simple tips below to get started! Here, there, and everywhere: Fix a Leak: Small household […]

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Kids Test Their Water Sense

http://www3.epa.gov/watersense/kids/games.html Think you know everything there is to know about water? Move the water-efficiency hero Flo through water pipes and answer water-efficiency questions while avoiding water-wasting monsters. Use the information you’ve learned on this Web site to test your knowledge. […]

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Public Health Emergency in Flint No Concern for Santa Fe Water Consumers

October 6, 2015 Public Utilities Seeks to Assure Residents, Customers of Water Quality Santa Fe, NM – The City of Santa Fe Public Utilities Division would like to assure Santa Fe City and County water customers that recent public health emergency […]

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PUBLIC NOTICE: BDD Request for Proposal, Litigation Counsel

PUBLIC NOTICE Buckman Direct Diversion REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Litigation Counsel for the BDD Board on matters related to Construction and Design RFP # ’16/12/P PROPOSAL DUE: October 6, 2015        2 P.M. City of Santa Fe Purchasing Office 2651 Siringo Road, […]

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Goat weed-trimmers are hard at work

Jackie Jadrnak / Journal North Reporter PUBLISHED: Monday, August 24, 2015 at 5:25 pm Around 60 goats and a couple sheep are busy making lunch out of weeds around the 1.5 megawatt solar array that helps power Buckman Direct Diverson’s […]

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Goatscaping: A Sustainable, Greener Option at BDD’s Solar Array

Buckman Direct Diversion (BDD) has a new team of landscape workers tackling the fields of weeds at the Booster Station 2A (BS2A) solar array. This team doesn’t require health insurance or retirement benefits either! Our hard workers include 45 goats, […]

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Santa Fe Drinking Water is Safe and Unaffected by Contaminated Mine Wastewater Flows

Buckman Direct Diversion (BDD) and the City of Santa Fe would like to assure Santa Fe water customers that recent concerns of the Gold King mine wastewater contamination leaking into the San Juan River will not reach our drinking water […]

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Maintenance Occurs at the BDD Intake Structure

Diversion Intake maintenance, Crane Buckman Direct Diversion was offline for a few weeks while staff and contractors worked to repair the intake screens, cells and air burst systems before the high snowmelt runoff in the Rio Grande was in full swing. […]

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Diversion Overview

BDD Intake Structure Overview 2015

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