2006 New Mexico Statutes - Section 72-12-25 — Aquifer containing nonpotable water at a depth of twenty-five hundred feet or more excluded from underground basin.
72-12-25. [Aquifer containing nonpotable water at a depth of twenty-five hundred feet or more excluded from underground basin.]
No past or future order of the state engineer declaring an underground water basin having reasonably ascertainable boundaries shall include water in an aquifer, the top of which aquifer is at a depth of twenty-five hundred feet or more below the ground surface at any location at which a well is drilled and which aquifer contains nonpotable water.
"Nonpotable water," for the purpose of this act [ 72-12-25 to 72-12-28 NMSA 1978], means water containing not less than one thousand parts per million of dissolved solids.
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