Environment

Bandelier Opens At Noon Due Sloppy Driving Conditions

BANDELIER News:

Due to sloppy winter driving conditions, Bandelier will open at 12 noon today. Additional updates will be posted to Bandelier’s website and social media accounts.

Bandelier National Monument protects, preserves, and interprets an outstanding portion of the Pajarito Plateau, including one of the largest concentrations of Ancestral Pueblo archaeological sites in the American Southwest. The park provides opportunities for people to connect with and enjoy a diversity of cultural and natural resources, striking scenery, wildlife habitats, remnants of a volcanic landscape, Read More

Daily Postcard: Plenty Of Snow Falling Over White Rock

Daily Postcard: Plenty of snow falling this morning over White Rock. The National Weather Service forecasts snow showers to continue until 3 p.m., then scattered rain and snow showers with a total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Today’s high should reach around 39. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

EDD Awards LEDA Assistance To Sánchez Farms

Sánchez Farms owner Javier Sánchez,with his family, has been awarded state economic development assistance to operate a farm-and-ranch and hardware supply retail businesses in Estancia. Courtesy/Javier Sánchez

Sons of Javier Sánchez at the family’s farm-and-ranch and hardware supply retail business in Estancia. Courtesy/Javier Sánchez

EDD News:

SANTA FE — The owner of a family farm in Torrance County has been awarded state economic development assistance to operate a farm-and-ranch and hardware supply retail businesses in Estancia with future expansion planned for Mountainair, Read More

New Strategic Vision: 2024-2034 ‘Charts Steady Beat Of Progress’ Across Environmental Management Complex

Courtesy/EM

EM News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) released its Strategic Vision 2024-2034, a blueprint to the program’s anticipated cleanup achievements over the next decade.

Built on successes achieved in recent years, the document is an update of previous editions and was developed through outreach and with feedback from regulators, tribal nations, EM advisory boards, local communities and other partners.

“The fifth iteration of the Strategic Vision charts a steady beat of progress for 2024 to 2034 at every EM site,” Read More

Winter Storm Warning Until Midnight Monday For Jemez

Rio Arriba County Emergency Services Weather Alert:

A winter storm warning alert has been issued through midnight Monday, March 18.

          • What: Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations 2 to 5 inches, and 6 and 13 inches above 8,000 feet.
          • Where: Jemez Mountains and Tusas Mountains Including Chama.
          • When: 6 a.m. today to midnight Monday Night.
          • Impacts: Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Some roads may be closed. Significant travel delays are possible.
          • Affected Areas: Jemez Mountains and Tusas Mountains including Chama.

Instructions:

Anyone who must travel is advised to keep an Read More

PEEC Seeks New Board Members

Board members Ed Santiago, Jennifer Macke, Linda Zwick and Janet Griego. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

PEEC will be accepting applications for board members to start in October of 2024. Board members come from various backgrounds and share skills in law, human resources, policies, fundraising, finance, and strategic planning and use their talents to grow the organization of PEEC.

Board member terms are for two years and can be renewed three times for a total of six years. PEEC board members are active in the organization, approving a yearly budget, reviewing strategic plans and goals, and adopting Read More

Scenes Of Snowy Fun Underway At Urban Park

A family is having a blast in the snow today at Urban Park. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

More fun in the snow today at Urban Park. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

The family dog is getting in on the fun today at Urban Park. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More

New Mexico State Parks Considers Public Feedback, Postpones Fee Hearing

State Parks Division Director Toby Velasquez

EMNRD News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico State Parks, a division of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) announced Thursday, the postponement of the public hearing on its fees scheduled for April 1, 2024.

This decision allows additional time to review and consider more than 800 public comments and feedback received regarding fee increases. The new date for the public hearing will be announced in the near future.

“We traveled statewide to engage with our valued customers and understand their viewpoints,” State Parks Read More

Urban Trail Phase I & II Multi-Use Trail Project Construction Activities For Week Of March 18

Scene from Urban Trail Phase I & II Multi-use Trail Project. Courtesy/LAC

Scene from Urban Trail Phase I & II Multi-use Trail Project. Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

Hasse Contracting Company Inc., under contract with Los Alamos County Public Works to construct the Urban Trail Phase I & II Multi-use Trail Project, will have construction activities at the following locations downtown and along and off Canyon Road during the week of March 18.

Weather permitting, areas impacted include (see included maps below):

  • Work Zone Area 1: Within the Fuller Lodge grounds adjacent to Central
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Non-Essential County Facilities Closed Due To Storm

COUNTY News:

Due to inclement weather, County Manager Anne Laurent has ordered the closure of all non-essential County government facilities and services today, March 15. This includes the Aquatic Center, libraries, Golf Pro Shop, Eco Transfer Station and Fuller Lodge.

While the Nature Center, Fuller Lodge Art Center and visitor centers are closed, the Los Alamos History Museum is open.

County staff recommends that individuals call any facility not listed to determine if they will be open or closed today.

Atomic City Transit fixed routes will make their last trips departing the Transit Read More

N.M. 4 Water Transmission Line Repair Postponed

Map of work area. Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

The emergency repair on a water transmission line along N.M. 4 that was supposed to start today has been rescheduled for Friday, March 22 through Sunday, March 24, due to winter weather conditions.

The broken water line is on the east side of N.M. 4 about halfway between East Jemez Road and the turnoff to N.M. 502.

Officials at the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities (DPU) would like to remind drivers that when the work begins next Friday, they should expect to see N.M. 4 traffic reduced to one lane in each direction as they approach the work zone. Northbound Read More

Kiwanis Club Cancels Saturday’s Aluminum Collection

Kiwanis Club News:

Due to inclement weather, the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos is canceling the Aluminum Collection event scheduled for Saturday, March 16.

The next collection will be held Saturday, May 18 the parking lot of the First United Methodist Church on Diamond Drive (near Sullivan Field).

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Santa Fe National Forest Seeks Input On Encino Vista Landscape Restoration Project

Encino Vista. Courtesy/SFNF

SFNF News:

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) will begin accepting comments today, March 15, 2024, for the Encino Vista Landscape Restoration Project (EVLRP) preliminary environmental assessment.

The Encino Vista Landscape Restoration Project is an approximately 130,305-acre project on the Coyote and Cuba Ranger Districts. The proposed EVLRP was developed after the South Fork Wildfire (2010) and the Diego Wildfire (2014) created severe long-term resource damage to watersheds, wildlife habitat, and forested landscapes within the project Read More

Request For Extension On 2022 Notice Of Violation Response And Penalty Calculation Worksheet Added To LANL Electronic Reading Room

LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announces new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room:

  • Request for Extension on the 2022 Notice of Violation Response and Penalty Calculation Worksheet (Link)
  • New Mexico Environment Department Approval Request for
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