Community Partners
The Communities of Santa Noeta County
Five communities hold the civic memory of this valley — its water, its land, its labor, and its long-term bets. None of the region’s future moves without them, and each negotiates from genuine standing.
Senior Water Rights
Alta Springs Nation
Holders of the basin’s most senior water rights and a destination economy built over decades of careful governance. Loretta Sandoval, Chairwoman. Negotiates from strength.
Land & Transit Corridors
Cupan Rock Tribe
Stewards of the mountain-pass corridors every regional route must cross. Daniel Tsosie, Land & Resources Director — engineer. Holds development to a higher standard.
Lakefront & Geothermal Claim
Shoreline Band of Lake Noeta
Holders of the lakefront and the contested geothermal claim the region now wants. Veronica Yepa, Resource & Futures Committee. The most leverage, the least margin.
Regional Workforce
Fuente Workforce Alliance
Pueblo de la Fuente runs the low desert — its trades, hospitality, and healthcare. Inés Marsh-Delgado, Director. Negotiates for thousands of skilled workers.
High Country & Agriculture
High Desert Settlements
Dispersed communities of agricultural labor, infrastructure, and deep mutual aid. Tomás Reynoso, community broker. Moral and experiential authority on access.
Why They All Hold Leverage
Lake Noeta — once a resort playground, now ecologically collapsed and sitting atop a geothermal and biofuel prospect — puts every community in genuine relation to the Consortium and to each other. Alta Springs holds the senior water rights; Cupan Rock the corridors; the Shoreline Band the contested claim and lakefront; Fuente the labor; the High Desert the reach. These interests legitimately conflict, and that is the point: no plan that ignores any one of them is a finished plan.