Water Rights Compliance Consultation

GGI staff can provide you expert consultation services to make sure you comply with your water rights permits. Non compliance with your water rights permits may lead to loss of water rights.

Permit implementation and compliance: The OSE can act to deny, partially approve/deny or approve with conditions the permit application. General conditions of approval often found in permits include:

• Specific limits on annual diversion and consumptive use in acre-ft/yr
• Requirement for metering of wells
• Requirement for separate metering of dairy barn use
• Requirement for separate metering of green water used for irrigation purposes
• Monthly or quarterly reporting of water usage
• Filing maps of former and new places of use (moved from and moved to)
• Due date for filing proof of completion of wells (PCW) or other diversion works
• Due date for proof of beneficial use (PBU)

After approval or denial of an application, an applicant has 30 days to review the OSE’s action and either accept the permit as issued or file a grievance with the OSE requesting that either the denial be reconsidered or the OSE modifies one or more of the permit conditions. Both applicants and protestants aggrieved with the final decision of the OSE have the right to appeal the OSE’s decision in New Mexico District Court.