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Santa Teresa Capital, LLC

The sod farm that became the project's water supplier: holds 2,400 acre-feet/year under OSE File LRG-3150-E (of 2,596.47 afa permitted in 2013; priority dates 1966–1971; 28 authorized points of diversion), filed the emergency replacement-well request on Oct 21, 2025, and sells non-potable water to the project under contract.

verification: primary-source

The sod farm whose water right is the project's water supply; it filed the emergency replacement-well request and sells non-potable water to the project under contract.

At a glance

Kind: Company
Role in the project: Supplier
Jurisdiction: Private sector (no public jurisdiction)
Key people: Lane Gaddy · Gilbert G. Mesa
Verification: primary-source — Read off the primary document itself
In the record: 2 sources · 4 connections · 6 dated entries
Record id: PJO103

Key facts

Holds 2,400 acre-feet a year under State Engineer file LRG-3150-E, of 2,596.47 acre-feet permitted in 2013, with priority dates from 1966 to 1971 and 28 authorized points of diversion.
The State Engineer's working estimate of about 1,100 acre-feet a year for the campus would consume roughly 46% of its right.
2025-10-21Requested emergency authorization for a replacement well on October 21, 2025, in a letter signed by agent Gilbert G. Mesa and copied to managing partner Lane Gaddy; the State Engineer authorized it on October 23.
The State Engineer's meter record shows 318.001 acre-feet drawn from the new well between April 14 and July 31, 2026, as cited in the Center for Biological Diversity's petition.
2026-02-25The proposed transfer of the same right to Sierra County was denied on February 25, 2026.
2026-08-23On August 23, 2026, the New Mexico Supreme Court stayed the emergency well authorization in a case naming it as real party in interest.

The record

Arguably the most under-covered entity in the record: the water right it holds is the project's real water supply, and OSE's ~1,100 acre-feet/year working estimate for the campus would consume roughly 46% of it.

Relationships · 4

Retains as lobbyist

Lane Gaddy

Partner of

Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA)

Owned by

IHR Holdings, LLC

Has as contact

Gilbert G. Mesa

In the timeline · 6

Oct 21, 2025The emergency well is filed Oct 23, 2025The State Engineer authorizes the well — two days after the request Apr 16, 2026The State Engineer acknowledges the protests — and says it will docket them May 26, 2026The decree says nothing about a new industrial user Aug 20, 2026The petition that produced the water stay — and a metered number Aug 23, 2026The New Mexico Supreme Court stops both proceedings — the first time anything has

Dated entries in the record that involve this party. Appearing here is not an allegation — it means the graph draws an edge from this dossier to that event.

Claims involving them · 4

The right is 2,400 AFY — campus demand ≈ half of itprimary-source

Protests cannot stop the pumping — by statuteconfirmed

The project would consume roughly 46% of the sod farm's entire water rightconfirmed

Nothing in the decree reconciles a new industrial groundwater user with the retirement obligationconfirmed

In the Watch · 4

documentOSE notice — LRG-03150-POD50 emergency well application (Oct 21 2025)

eventSierra County transfer of the same right DENIED (Feb 25 2026)

eventThe land/water split is created (Dec 23 2013 — Instrument #1330941)

eventNM Supreme Court stays the emergency well authorization (Aug 23 2026)

Sources · 2

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