However, the Village will continue to explore until it finds a more productive well for long-term needs. In the long run, Cloudcroft is much better off on the water supply situation than just about any other community in New Mexico. Additionally the Village has plenty of water rights so we shouldn't have any problem getting the permits to drill whatever wells we need. Long-term, Cloudcroft is in good shape because we have the water rights and the water is in the ground. Unfortunately, it is sometimes tricky hitting the right spot of fragmented limestone in our mountains to get the big stream of water we want.
Subdivisions are long-term developments.
It will be years before many residents will be living in The Woodlands. For example, the Bear Park subdivision which was the last one approved by the Village has only has six full time residents and twelve part-time residents six years after being approved. The three connections Mr. Loy mentioned that have been made at The Woodlands were to connect it to the Village system, not to connect residents using water. It would be several months before anyone could build and move into a home in The Woodlands. Hopefully the Village will have most of its water problems solved by then.