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Dossier · Who's Who
Melanie Stansbury
The U.S. representative for New Mexico's First Congressional District, who on August 24, 2026 wrote to five state officials asking for a public accounting of Project Jupiter's water.
At a glance
- Current role
- U.S. Representative, New Mexico's First Congressional District[1]
- Category
- Elected official
- Jurisdiction
- Federal (U.S.)
- Verification
- primary-source — Read off the primary document itself
- In the record
- 1 sources · 1 connections · 3 dated entries
- Record id
- PJP173
Key facts
- 2026-08-24On August 24, 2026, wrote to the Attorney General, the State Engineer, the Environment Secretary and the chair and director of the Interstate Stream Commission, asking for a “clear public accounting” of the project's water sources, rights and permits by August 28.[1]
- Stansbury's framing: “Every new major water use deserves a transparent accounting of where its water is coming from and how that use fits within our state's obligations.”[1]
- The letter cites record-low snowpack, statewide curtailments, Elephant Butte at its lowest storage since 1971 and the Rio Grande dry through the middle reach for more than three months.[1]
- 2026-08-28The State Engineer replied on August 28, 2026 that the construction water comes from an existing, verified right and “is not a new depletion of water in the Lower Rio Grande.”
- The campus is not in Stansbury's district; it is in the Second.
The record
United States Representative for New Mexico's First Congressional District. On August 24, 2026 she wrote to five state officials demanding a public accounting of Project Jupiter's water — the first federal-level demand for the specific record this site has been assembling by hand.
Her framing: "Every new major water use deserves a transparent accounting of where its water is coming from and how that use fits within our state's obligations." The campus is not in her district; it is in the Second.
Relationships · 1
In the timeline · 3
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