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He completed his BS degree at the University of New Mexico in 1983 and began his professional career with the US Bureau of Reclamation as a rotation-al civil engineer where he worked on a variety of water resource development and management projects. He became the Resource Management Division Director where he had responsibilities for reservoir and river operations, endangered species recovery coordination, and land and recreation management for ten Reclamation projects in southern Colorado and New Mexico. Mike left Reclamation in 1994 to work as a Regional Water Planning Director for the New Mexico State Engineer where he assisted local governments and tribes to develop plans for managing and allocating their water resources. He then worked for the City of Santa Fe for five years as the water utility director where he had responsibility for day-to-day operations of the water system and the planning and development of the City’s water supply program in a rapidly growing southwest community. Hamman was then offered a unique opportunity to join the Jicarilla Apache Nation to assist that Tribe with its water management and on-reservation water development needs. During his nearly nine year tenure with the Tribe he helped them develop a comprehensive water development strategy that provided them the opportunity to lease their unused water to third parties, provided funding for getting their water and wastewater systems upgraded and expanded, and resolved difficult endangered species issues that allowed them to fully develop their water rights. Mike and his wife Sally have raised four children and have moved to Weaverville from Chama, New Mexico to start a new phase of their lives in beautiful Trinity County. They and their two dogs now reside on Salt Flat near Lewiston.
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