Permit Hearing for Wastewater Project Near Tesuque Draws Mixed Reaction

Permit hearing for wastewater project near Tesuque draws mixed reaction

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – If you're driving along Bishop's Lodge Road in Tesuque, just north of Santa Fe, you'll come across yellow signs protesting the Bishop's Lodge Resort. For more than forty years, Frank Morbillo has been a resident in Tesuque village and he's worried about the resort's request to the state for a wastewater discharge permit that they say would allow the lodge to release 30,000 gallons per day of partially treated sewage into a le…

Tesuque residents continue push against Bishop's Lodge wastewater permit

The resort's wastewater plans have drawn sustained pushback from residents concerned about the potential for pollution of the creek.

Five-day hearings on Bishop’s Lodge proposed wastewater permit start

Chris Romero, a Tesuque Village resident, holds up a sample of effluent during a hearing on Monday, May, 2025. (Photo by Austin Fisher / Source NM)In a committee room on the third floor of the Roundhouse on Monday, many Tesuque Village residents hotly contested a luxury resort’s proposal for sewage disposal during the first of five days of scheduled hearings before the state environment department. Earlier this year, NMED approved a draft permit…