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Roswell Daily Record THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY

Vol. 124, No. 84 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday

April 8, 2015

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Dairy, environmentalist agreement reached By Jeff Tucker Record Staff Writer After years of litigation and wrangling that the secretary of the state’s Environment Department said has cost taxpayers plenty, coalitions of New Mexico dairy farmers and environmentalists worked together over the Easter holiday weekend on proposed new regulations for the state’s dairy industry that would lessen the number of required monitoring wells and give dairy farmers more flexibility on how to contain wastewater. The proposed agreement was presented at Monday’s Dairy Rule hearings of the Water Quality Control Commission in Roswell, negating the need for planned week-long hearings in the Alien City. WQCC chairman Ryan Flynn, also the secretary of the New Mexico Envi-

ronment Department, said the WQCC, a division of the Environment Department, would consider the proposed agreement at the WQCC’s May 12 meeting in Santa Fe. Representatives from the Environment Department and the state attorney general’s office also signed off on the proposed deal, potentially bringing to an end several years of dairy regulation litigation that has made its way up the New Mexico Supreme Court. “The two big-ticket items that are changing are the location of the monitoring wells,” said Trais Kliphuis, division director of the Environment Department’s Water Protection Division. “The rule as it is today still requires that every single potential source have a monitoring well. It’s very specifically located and it

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didn’t allow for the department to make a site-specific evaluation and determine where the best place to put a monitoring well is.” Kliphuis said, under existing regulations, one existing dairy farm would be required to have 48 dif-

ferent monitoring wells, each at a cost of about $100,000. The current stringent regulations have resulted in numerous dairy farms requesting variances from the WQCC, creating See DAIRY, Page A2

Top right: New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission member Larry Dominguez, from left, and Ryan Flynn, secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department, talk with Roswell Mayor Dennis Kintigh at the start of Monday’s WQCC Dairy Rule hearing in Roswell. Top left: Janet Jarratt, operator of a small dairy farm near Los Lunas, speaks at Monday’s hearing about the regulatory difficulties of running a small dairy farm. Coalitions of New Mexico dairy farmers and environmentalists, as well representatives of state agencies, came together Monday on proposed new regulations for the state’s dairy industry that would lessen the number of required monitoring wells and give dairy farmers more flexibility on how to contain wastewater. Flynn said the WQCC would consider the proposed agreement at the WQCC’s May 12 meeting in Santa Fe.

Lt. Gov. Sanchez speaks at local GOP fundraiser

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Top left: Lt. Gov. John Sanchez was one of the speakers at the 2015 Lincoln Day Dinner, held Tuesday night at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center. U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, who also spoke, is seated behind Sanchez. The event, which included both live and silent auctions, was a fundraiser for the Chaves County Republican Party. Sanchez said New Mexicans are tired of New Mexico being a poor state. He placed the blame largely on the Democrats, who have controlled New Mexico since it became a state in 1912. After the 2014 general election, Republicans took control of the state’s House of Representatives for the first time in 60 years. He rallied Republicans present to do the same with the Senate in 2016. “In two years what we did in the House of Representatives we are going to do (with) the Senate,” Sanchez told an enthusiastic audience. Top right: Jessica Kirk sings the National Anthem while City Councilor Jason Perry honors the flag. Right: This gift basket was one of the silent auction items.

Committee reshaping Reinecke goes beyond chiropractor services on City Council agenda By Jeff Jackson Record City Editor Reorganizing a slate of city committees is among the topics the Roswell City Council will consider at its regular monthly meeting Thursday night. There are currently 10 committees associated with all municipal departments that hear issues and advise the full council and mayor, and each of those panels includes three councilors and one staff coordinator meeting on a monthly

schedule. Under a plan that has been developing for several months, the city code would be amended by the council to create five committees to be served by four members of the council. The five advisory committees would be titled Finance, Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel and Legal and absorb a higher number of details than has been the case. Every See CITY, Page A3 Today’s Forecast

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By Dylanne Petros Record Staff Writer

People who think they have carpal tunnel syndrome might not actually have it, as the problem might not be in the hands but in the elbows. Krasimir Hristov, a chiropractor at Reinecke Chiropractic, said carpal tunnel surgeries are the most commonly failed surgeries in the United States because the pain might not be in the hands. “Connective tissue is what keeps our organs together,

our cells together,” Hristov said. “Without our connective tissue we would just be a blob of cells.” Reinecke Chiropractic deals with a multitude of issues with the body including the most common ones such as carpal tunnel syndrome, fractures and rotator cuff injuries. “Every bone has a connective tissue sheet that’s what’s causing your pain when you have a fracture,” Hristov said. He said the tissue surSee REINECKE, Page A3

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Krasimir Hristov, right, demonstrates some of the therapy techniques Reinecke Chiropractic uses on Kiwanis member Gary Spreacker.

Index

Today’s Obituaries Page A3, A6 • John D. Helmstetler Sr. • Agustin Horton • Rev. Edward Dean Lee

• Dr. William George Liakos Sr. • Paul Miranda • Manuel Montez • Alfred Orosco Valenzuela

Classifieds...........B8 Comics..................B5 Financial..............B3 General...............A2

Horoscopes.........A8

Opinion.................A4

Lotteries. ............A2

Sports. ................B1

Nation..................A6

Weather...............A8


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