(AP) -- FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - The state Public Regulation Commission will look into who owns the pipes and other equipment for a water system that serves Crouch Mesa near Farmington.
The ownership question goes to the PRC after the board of Morningstar Domestic Water and Waste Water Users Association voted Wednesday to dissolve itself.
A state Environment Department attorney, Carol Parker, says the agency had been looking into the association's assets to determine how a community water board could operate without owning its system.
Parker says the Environment Department will pass the information to the PRC.
The Morningstar system was owned and managed by Animas Valley Land and Water Co., which bought the infrastructure in 2008.
Morningstar customers want to hook into Farmington municipal water.
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