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The Tano Road Association is a neighborhood association; dues are voluntary, member services are voluntary, yet all residents in our immediate area benefit from our Volunteer Security Patrol, our semi-annual Trash Bash, our working with the county road department, our keeping tabs on nearby developments, our communications network of meetings, mailings, e-mailings, and newsletters.
Our accomplishments benefit the entire Santa Fe Community. A short list follows, each task accomplished by TRA volunteers working with a tiny or no budget.
We pushed for the paving of Tano Road, Tano West, and Camino de las Montoyas.
We pushed for the installation of North Ridgetop Road because of the many fatalities at Tano Road and US85/284. Ridgetop Road was a collaboration of Santa Fe Estates and the City.
We helped spearhead the GRT increase by the County to fund expanded Emergency Services throughout the County. The tax increase was improved, and the Santa Fe County Fire Department is well underway in expanding sub-stations, equipment, and staff.
We funded a professional traffic study which confirmed Santa Fe Estates’ own projected 25,000 vehicles per day on Ridgetop Road, then identified increasing traffic burdens on our other exit roads. The proposed Northwest Quadrant build-out and the WIPP nuclear-waste transports along NM599 will also increase traffic density on nearby roads. Our documented concerns have been reviewed and approved by the Metropolitan Planning Organization made up of city, county, state, and federal staff members.
We joined Santa Fe Basin Water Association to protest the proposed excessive pumping of the city’s Northwest Well. We presented our case to the Office of the State Engineer Examiners, and the OSE ruled to limit the annual production of the huge well. Twenty-five deep monitoring wells were put in place by the USGS so that state and federal agencies can measure and evaluate the impact of the new city wells on the aquifer that serves much of Santa Fe County. Hydrologists from New Mexico Tech are monitoring inactive domestic wells in the Tano Road area. The entire Santa Fe community benefits from our success in conserving and monitoring the aquifer, especially future generations.
We again teamed with SFBWA to negotiate with the City to monitor Buckman Well #13. The City agreed to install a monitor well and to compensate domestic well owners if their well is impaired by #13.
Our monitoring and oversight of developer and construction compliance with building codes, the law, and contracts serves all of Santa Fe.
We are proud of TRA board member Margaret Alexander’s La Tierra Trails which she has worked on for several years now. See her map on www.tanoroad.org.
We compiled, published, and distributed our TRA Fire Prevention and Evacuation Guidelines booklet to all area residents, and is available for the county.
We donated GPS receivers to our fire department which will benefit the county. The GPS mapping project will assist emergency services in reaching hard to find locations. These are coordinates for every residence in the area, posted them on our map, and linked to the addresses for the TRA membership data base. Copies of this map have been given to the Tesuque Volunteer Fire Dept. and to the Regional Emergency Response Center dispatcher (911).
We collected locations and descriptions of external water sources for emergency use by the fire department in case of a wildland fire.
We provide guidelines for bark beetle infestation and treatment. The community at large benefits since the TRA Bark Beetle Guidelines is a frequently visited page on the www.tanoroad.org web site.
We are assisting all area residents by providing RG well numbers which may be involved in the Aamodt Lawsuit. See www.tanoroard.org for the list of well numbers.
Many TRA volunteers helped with these accomplishments, and to recognize some of the leaders here are the names: Margaret Alexander, Sylvia and Jim DuLaney, Chrys Fisher, Barbara Jeffe, Lois Goodman, Lew Pollock, Mario Vanni, and Debbie Wyant.
Clearly, all of us TRA members get a lot for their voluntary $50 dues per year, and the community
at large benefits from our accomplishments as well.
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