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Dossier · Who's Who
JR Hennessey
The State Engineer's District IV official who signed the October 23, 2025 emergency authorization for Santa Teresa Capital's replacement well.
At a glance
- Current role
- Deputy District Manager, District IV, NM Office of the State Engineer (OSE)
- Category
- Agency staff
- Jurisdiction
- State of New Mexico
- Verification
- primary-source — Read off the primary document itself
- In the record
- 2 sources · 1 connections · 1 dated entries
- Record id
- PJP166
Key facts
- 2025-10-21Santa Teresa Capital's October 21, 2025 emergency well letter was addressed to Hennessey.
- 2025-10-23Signed for District IV the October 23, 2025 Emergency Authorization, File LRG-03150-E, Permit LRG-03150-POD 50.[2]
- 2025-10-23The authorization finds an emergency in which delay from publication and hearing “may result in economic loss,” and limits the well to the same source, amount, place and purpose of use as the right it replaces.
- 2026-08-23The Supreme Court stayed the authorization on August 23, 2026.
The record
The state official to whom the October 21, 2025 emergency well letter was addressed. The action box on that application form is blank, but two days later, on October 23, 2025, Hennessey signed the emergency authorization for District IV.
Relationships · 1
In the timeline · 1
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Sources · 2
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