!!NEW!! NMDA’s Healthy Soil Program offers the following information to help SWCDs and others prepare for the FY25 grant-application period opening in February 23, 2024 and extending through noon on April 26, 2024. !!NEW!!

 Individual Applicants seeking project sponsorship from the Santa Fe-Pojoaque SWCD should reach out to USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to complete conservation planning well before the Healthy Soil Program application period opens. Conservation planning is the absolute foundation for Individual Applicant projects, given that soil health-related resource concerns determine which soil health principles land managers should focus on, which agricultural/conservation activities they should implement, and which supplies they might buy in order to implement those activities.

Stay up to date on Healthy Soil Program happenings by subscribing to the program’s e-newsletter at Healthy Soil Program (nmsu.edu). 

!!NEW!! Santa Fe County GIS: Flood Inundation Mapping for Santa Cruz Dam Sites 1, 2G, 3, 3A, 4, 5, and 6. !!NEW!!

May 2021 Finding Of No Significant Impact (FONSI)

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in New Mexico and the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District (SFPSWCD) have developed the Santa Cruz River Watershed Dam Site #1 – Final Supplemental Watershed Plan No. 4-Environmental Assessment.  The purpose of the action is to provide continued flood protection (flood damage reduction) preventing runoff, erosion, and sediment damages in the currently protected area downstream of the dam up to the 100-year event, and to meet current State of New Mexico and NRCS engineering safety standards. There is a need for continued protection to land (farms, ranches and non-ag land), homes, businesses, roads and other community infrastructure, from flooding related damages. The FONSI document is uploaded below.

New Mexico NRCS Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program: Info on the rehabilitation of Santa Cruz Dam Site 1.

Also below are FAQs about forming a watershed district.

News articles links from the Santa Fe Reporter and the Santa Fe New Mexican on the Leonora Curtin Wetlands Restoration Project.