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New Mexico panel OKs plan to spend $100M to fix state dams

by Associated Press
| February 11, 2020 9:30 PM

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A plan to spend $100 million to fix dams throughout New Mexico — a state with the highest percentage of high-hazard dams in the country — passed its first test Tuesday amid an urgent call to upgrade the facilities over worries about the loss of life.

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