NM Tech Delivers Water to Magdalena Notes

• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has begun delivering water to the town. The university in Socorro has a productive well and is sending water by way of a 3,000-gallon tanker truck.


• those living in Magdalena had the option to sign up to receive two 16-ounce bottles of water per person per day.


• "No. I personally did not (see this coming)," said Marshal Larry Cearley.


• "No forewarning, nothing," said Darrell Pettis, of Magdalena.


• "No one had any idea that the pump was not going to continue," Cearley asserts.