Santa Fe National Forest — Project Detail

The City of Santa Fe is proposing a project to implement the NM OSE Permit (SP-4842-RFP) for the re-use of San Juan-Chama Project (SJCP) water by constructing an 18-mile long pipeline, across BLM and NFS lands, to convey unconsumed reclaimed SJCP water from the City’s PRWRF to the Rio Grande River.

JMEC is requesting a reauthorization of their master permit to maintain and operate approximately 349.49 acres of electrical lines (266.2 acres of distribution lines, 30.87 acres of buried distribution lines and 52.42 acres of overhead transmission lines), total of 133.355 miles, across NFS lands.

Ski Santa Fe is proposing to modernize and expand snowmaking infrastructure, which includes replacing and upgrading existing infrastructure to increase in water storage capacity and enhance the efficiency of snowmaking operation.

Proposal to facilitate restoration and recovery within the HPCC burned area on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District.

Windstream internet service provider proposes to install buried and aerial fiber optic lines along roads and powerlines within the Santa Fe National Forest, to Sierra de los Pinos, Sulphur Creek and Mesa de Cuba.

To replace three old vault toilets along Highway 475 to Ski Santa Fe and provide ADA access.

Replace existing non-functioning well with new well and pipeline to connect new well to existing pipeline and watering facilities. Fencing around new well.

To restore the frequent-fire forests by modifying the arrangement of forest stands, openings, and interspaces in order to improve the potential for stand regeneration and offset the risk of forest type loss due to natural success an wildfire.

NNSA proposes to construct and operate a 115 kV transmission line on the Santa Fe NF (SFNF) to meet anticipated power needs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This project includes amending the SFNF Land Management Plan under 36 CFR 219 Regs

Repair/reconstruction of allotment and boundary fences damaged by fire on the Fisher Hill (2 mi), El Solitario (11 mi), and Rosilla (3.5 mi) Allotments; hazard tree mitigation on Forest Service lands to protect the new fences.

Hazard tree reduction within 100 feet of each side of the existing MSM powerlines in the HPCC post-fire landscape to reduce risk of damage to powerlines and potential fire hazard and to protect public safety using hand crews and chainsaws.

USGS has two gage stations upstream of Buckman Diversion Project to monitor river flow levels. Gages are together about 25 feet from the Rio Grand and transmit flow data through telemetry. Consist of metal box on stilts and a pipe going into river.