The Santa Fe River Traditional Communities Collaborative (SFRTCC) began as a group responding to a Santa Fe River restoration proposal in 2012 and has evolved into a regular forum for individuals who share concerns about the Santa Fe River Watershed, the health of its riparian environment, and the rich cultural traditions of its agricultural history.
The Collaborative is open to individuals, organizations and government entities and has included participation from area ranchers and farmers, the Presidents of the La Bajada Village Association, the Agua Fria Village Association and the La Cienega Valley Association, the Santa Fe Watershed Association, the Director of the Water-Culture Institute and representatives from the New Mexico Acequia Association, the Santa Fe–Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District, the Pueblo de Cochiti, Rivers Run Through Us, as well as representatives from state and federal agencies and city and county staff.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, SFWA has been maintaining the email database and hosting, recording, and posting the SFRTCC meetings, but the Collaborative itself remains its own entity separate from SFWA chaired by Carl Dickens.
Please email amara @ santafewatershed . org if you would like to be added to the email list.
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Keep up-to-date with everything related to the Santa Fe River Traditional Communities Collaborative!
We at SFWA will do our best to update this page regularly.
Watch the most recent meeting from May 8, 2025
- Update of Return Flow Credit, Santa Fe River, Bill Schneider, Water Resources Manager City of Santa Fe Public Utilities Department
- Paseo Real Wastewater Treatment Plant Master Plan
- WPAC Update
- Lower Santa Fe Watershed Tours
- New SFRTCC Organizational Structure
- Santa Fe Watershed Association News
- Other News
NOTE: This is the last remote meeting. All future meetings will be in person.
Watch the meeting from March 13, 2025
1. Update on Lower Santa Fe Watershed Planning Process
2. Paseo Real Wastewater Treatment Plant – New Construction or Rehab
3. County/City Cooperation on Water Issues, How to Make it Happen
4. Santa Fe Watershed Association WaterSMART Grant and the Future of Federal Funding
5. SFRTCC Organizational Structure
6. Other Matters
Watch the meeting from January 9, 2025
- Santa Fe County Wetlands Restoration Grant Application, Andrew Harnden, Senior Water Planner
- BOR WaterSMART Aquatic Restoration Grant Application under consideration by City of Santa Fe
- Caja del Rio – National Monument Update
- Introduction to American Rivers, Emily Wolf, Rio Grande Coordinator
- Santa Fe Watershed Association News
- Other Matters
Watch the meeting from November 14, 2024
- Paseo Real Treatment Plant Update
- Lower Santa Fe River Planning Process Update
- Plan Expectations
- Santa Fe Water Coalition Engagement
- Coordination with La Cienega Valley Association Spring Restoration Planning
- Working with County and City Staff
- Long-term Planning Projects for the Watershed – A discussion
- Other Matters
Watch the meeting from September 18, 2024
- Collaborative Review, Reflection and Next Steps
- Discussion of Objectives
- Conservation and Water Harvesting Planning
- Stormwater Management, Aquifer Recharge
- Spring Restoration
- Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Return Flow Credits for the Santa Fe River
- Santa Fe – City County Cooperation
- Santa Fe County Water Policy Advisory Committee Update
- Organized Stakeholder Group
- Tres Rios Ranch, Educational Center and Community Resource
- Announcements
- Other Matters
Watch the meeting from July 11, 2024
- Funding for a New Treatment Plant and the Benefits of a City and County Project, Heather Himmelberger, Director, Southwest Environmental Finance Center
- Santa Fe River Water Quality Testing Plan, Amy Ewing, Hydrogeologist, Hazen and Sawyer
- Update on the Paseo Real Treatment Plant and Plans for the Future, John Dupuis, Public Utilities Director
Watch the meeting from April 18, 2024
- Lower Santa Fe River Watershed Planning Update
- Paseo Real Treatment Plant Update
- County Water Policy Advisory Committee Update
- SFWA Update. Mori Hensley, Executive Director, SFWA
- Other Matters
Watch the meeting from February 8, 2024
1. “Peaks to the Rio” Planning for the Santa Fe River, Erin English, Biohabitats [view slides here]
2. Lower Santa Fe River Watershed Planning Update
3. Paseo Real Treatment Plant Update
4. PFAs Update
5. SFWA Update. Mori Hensley, Executive Director
6. Other Matters
Links and information provided in the meeting chat:
NMAC 20.6.2.4103 ABATEMENT STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title20/20.006.0002.html
EPA proposes new rules after Lujan Grisham’s PFAS petition: https://nmpoliticalreport.com/quick-reads/epa-proposes-new-rule-after-lujan-grishams-pfas-petition/
Interstate Technology Regulatory Council: https://pfas-1.itrcweb.org/
Santa Fe County webpage on PFAS – https://www.santafecountynm.gov/public-works/pfas
Proposal to Clarify Authority to Address Releases of Hazardous Waste at Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities: https://www.epa.gov/hw/proposal-clarify-authority-address-releases-hazardous-waste-treatment-storage-and-disposal
https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-strategic-roadmap-epas-commitments-action-2021-2024
Watch the meeting from December 14, 2023
- PFAs Update and Information
- Lower Santa Fe Watershed Planning Update
- Paseo Real Treatment Plant Update
- SFWA Update
- Other Matters
Watch the meeting from October 12, 2023
- Deborah Anyaibe, Consultant, Introduction and Lower Santa Fe Watershed Planning Update
- Michelle Hunter, Well Monitoring and Testing Program Update
- Spring Restoration Plan La Cienega/La Cineguilla
- Pipeline Coalition Update
- SFWA Update. Mori Hensley, Executive Director, SFWA
- Announcing new SFRTCC co-chair
- Other Matter
Watch the meeting from August 10, 2023
- Paseo Real Water Reclamation Facility Update – Well Testing
- Pipeline Coalition Lower Santa Fe Watershed Planning Process Update
- Pipeline Coalition and Collaborative Cooperation
- Planning Process Objectives and Resources
- Stormwater Management Planning
- SFWA Update. Mori Hensley, Executive Director, SFWA
Watch the meeting from June 5, 2023
1. Paseo Real Water Reclamation Facility Updates
2. Santa Fe County Water Conservation-Water Harvesting-Storm Water Management Planning
3. Pipeline Coalition Lower Santa Fe Watershed Planning Process Update
4. City of Santa Fe – WildEarth Guardians, OSE Protest Agreement, Daniel Timmons, Rio Grande Waterkeeper and Wild Rivers Program Director
5. SFWA Update. Mori Hensley, Executive Director, SFWA
6. Other Matters
Watch the meeting from April 13, 2023
- Paseo Real Water Reclamation Facility Update, P. Fred Heerbrandt, Engineer Supervisor Wastewater, City of Santa Fe
- La Cienega/La Cieneguilla Well Monitoring Program Update
- Pipeline Coalition – Community Based Planning
- SFWA Update. Mori Hensley, Executive Director, SFWA
- Other Matters
EPA Water Quality DataFacility Name / ID: NM0022292
Watch the meeting from February 9, 2023
Watch the meeting from October 13, 2022
- Tucson Green Street Ordinances and Initiatives
- La Cienega La Cieneguilla Well Monitoring and Tracking Pilot Project
- SFWA Watershed Stakeholder Workshop and CWMP Update
- Pipeline Coalition Facilitator RFP Update
- Tres Rios Acquisition
- Other Matters
Watch the meeting from August 11, 2022
- Fifty Year Water Plan, Andrew Erdmann, Water Planning Program Manager, New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission
- SFWA Leadership Transition Update and Rain Gardens, Mori Hensley, Executive Director
- Pipeline Coalition RFP Subcommittee Update
- Reflection, Steps Forward for the Collaborative
- Other Matters
Watch the meeting from June 9, 2022
- San Juan Chama Return Flow Pipeline Project Presentation on the Geohydrology of the Lower Santa Fe River
- Pipeline Coalition RFP Subcommittee Update on Planning Process
- Community Contacts for Reporting and Involvement in Planning Process
- Update on “River Story” Video Project of the Lower Santa Fe River
- Watershed Memories and Moments
Watch the meeting from April 14, 2022
- Lower Santa Fe Watershed Stakeholder Involved Planning Process Update
- Planning Process Stakeholder Group Outreach
- La Cieneguilla Well Testing
- Flood Control – Aquifer Recharge
- Connecting with the Santa Fe River Commission
Watch the meeting from February 10, 2022
Adrienne Rosenberg, Monitoring and Educational Outreach Coordinator, Ecotone Landscape Planning – Santa Fe County Wetlands Action Plan
Paseo Real Wastewater Reclamation – Discharge Permit Renewal Application – Paul Fred Heerbrandt, Wastewater Engineer Manager, City of Santa Fe Wastewater Management Division
- Lower Santa Fe Watershed Stakeholder Involved Planning Process Update – Stakeholder Groups and RFP for Planning Facilitator
- Development of Lower Santa Fe Watershed Video Tour Plan Subcommittee
- Wellowners-Groundwater Conservation Outreach Program
- La Cienega, La Cieneguilla Spring Restoration Infrastructure Planning.
Watch the meeting from December 9, 2021
- Watershed Planning: Andy Otto, Executive Director, Santa Fe Watershed Association Watershed Plan Stakeholders Assessment, an explanation of the next round of questions with demonstration.
- Lower Watershed Symposium to develop the resource library of science based papers and studies.
- Return Flow Pipeline Planning:
- Return Flow Pipeline Stakeholder Involved Planning Process Update – Anjali Bean, Water Resources Manager, Santa Fe County
- Identification of Groups for Stakeholder Involved Planning Process
Drought Management – Well Owners, Outreach-Education Program Santa Fe County Water Policy Advisory Committee - Flood Control Management, City-County
Watch the meeting from October 14, 2021
Special Guest – Erin Barton, Forest Planner, US Forest Service
- City/County Pipeline Agreement
- Pipeline Coalition Update and Letter of Expectations
- Stakeholder Involved Mitigation Plan for the Lower Santa Fe Watershed
- Identifying Stakeholder Groups
- River Commission Openings
Watch the meeting from August 12, 2021
- Return Flow Pipeline Update, Pipeline Coalition and County Commission Presentation
- Paseo Real Treatment Plant Issues and Plans Going Forward
- Watershed Plan Update
Watch the meeting from June 10th, 2021
Santa Fe and Rio Grande River Hydrogeological Connection, Dr, Alex Rinehart, Professor, New Mexico Tech with Stacy Timmons, NM Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
- Return Flow Credit Pipeline Update, Bill Schneider, Water Resources and Conservation Manager
- Stakeholder Driven Mitigation Plan for the Lower Santa Fe Watershed
Watch the meeting from April 8th, 2021
- Long-term Water Planning, a County View of the City/County Water Planning Process – Anjali Bean, County Water Resources Manager
- Comprehensive Water Level Monitoring Program, Santa Fe Watershed
- Conservation Program, Christine Chavez, City of Santa Fe Water Conservation Manager
- Growth Management in the Time of Drought
- Acequia Committee Update
- Educational Committee Update
Watch the meeting from February 11th, 2021
- County-City Water Planning
- The Santa Fe and Rio Grande River Connections
- Downstream Users Group
- Water and Cultural Issues
- The Compact Release
Watch the meeting from December 10, 2020
- City/County Water Planning and Possible River Impacts Jesse Roach, Director, Santa Fe City Water Department
- Treatment Plant Discharge Compliance Update, Efren Morales and Mike Dozier
- BLM El Canon – Rael Ranch Management Plan
- Eldorado Wells Update
- Educational Committee Update
- Other Matters
Watch the meeting from October 8, 2020
- Approval of Agenda
- City Return Flow Pipeline Project Update, Bill Schneider, City of Santa Fe
- Next Steps Constructed Treatment Wetlands Discussion
- Treatment Plant Pharmaceuticals, Patrick Longmire, NMED
- Educational Committee Update
- Other Matters
Watch the meeting from August 13, 2020
- Approval of Agenda
- Constructed Treatment Wetlands, Erin English, Biohabitats
- Paseo Rael Wastewater Treatment Plant Update
- PFAS Contamination Update
- Highlands University 4-year Water Resources Science Grant, Dr. Jennifer Lindline
Watch the meeting from June 11, 2020
- Paseo Rael Wastewater Treatment Plant Update
- Constructed Wetlands Discussion and Management Plan
- Establishing Collaborative Education Subcommittee
- Santa Fe Watershed Association Grants
Watch the Zoom meeting from May 1, 2020
Special Meeting – Issues with the Paseo Real Water Reclamation Facility – formerly Wastewater Treatment Plant. City Councilors Carol Romero-Wirth and Chris Rivera, Mike Dozier, Wastewater Management, Division Director, Efren Morales, Treatment Plant Staff
This meeting was called due to continuing issues with the operation of the Paseo Real Water Reclamation Facility.
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