Environment

County’s Traffic & Streets Division Snow Response Team Asks For Resident Cooperation During Winter Storms

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Scene on Diamond Drive from winter 2024. Post file photo

COUNTY News:

During the winter months, Los Alamos County’s Traffic and Streets Division works hard to ensure safe travel by plowing snow from designated streets and sidewalks. To enhance the effectiveness of snow and ice control operations, the snow response team would like to remind residents that they also play a crucial role in maintaining clear and safe pathways.

To support this effort, residents are asked to:

  • To clear sidewalks and driveways within 24 hours of the end of a storm.
  • Ensure areas for trash pickup and mail or newspaper delivery
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County: How To Be BearWise At Home This Fall

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Learn how to be bear wise at home to prevent encounters. Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News:

It’s Fall, and the bears are busy getting ready for their long winter slumber. Be BearWise at home to prevent encounters.

Trash & Recycling:

  • All trash containers are cleaned often to reduce odors.
  • Recycling is rinsed out and clean.
  • Bear-resistant trash containers are always closed and latched.

If containers are not bear-resistant:

  • Regular trash cans are stored inside a sturdy, locked building or bear-resistant enclosure.
  • Garbage is put out the morning of pick up (not the night before).

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Robinson: Fire Hazard Mounts As FEMA, Forest Service Shrink

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services

A woman from Mora County told me recently: “We always said we were land rich and cash poor. Since the fire, we don’t even have the land.” Besides fire and flood damage to family property, a road washed out, and nobody has rebuilt it.

U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-NM, joined by U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan, have chided FEMA’s New Mexico Joint Recovery Office for its sluggish payout of claims for damages caused by the massive Calf Canyon-Hermit’s Peak blaze three years ago. In their recent letter they said the claims Read More

Daily Postcard: Bucks Sparring On High School Lawn

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Daily Postcard: A pair of bucks are spotted engaging in a sparring match, practicing their moves and establishing who gets the best turf on Sunday on the lawn at Los Alamos High School. Photo by Michael Smith

Another view of the bucks sparring Sunday on the lawn at Los Alamos High School. Photo by Michael Smith

And one more view of the bucks sparring Sunday on the lawn at Los Alamos High School. Photo by Michael Smith Read More

NMED And NMDOH Report Increased Levels Of Metals In Mora County’s Groundwater

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NMDOH News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) are urging Mora County residents to test their private wells after high levels of metals were found in the county’s groundwater.

Three metals — antimony, arsenic and uranium — exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) safe drinking water limits. The independent geologic study focused on Mora County also found elevated levels of manganese over EPA guidelines.

Seven other metals — barium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, thallium and vanadium — were also found Read More