MRGCD supports the State’s efforts to better understand and address human-driven water depletions in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. This includes the State’s pending metering order and a future evaluation of the cumulative effects of domestic wells. These are important steps toward improved water management and accountability. However, the bosque remains the largest source of …
Accumlating odds and ends, cluttering my brain but lacking the oomph for a full blog post: Rio Bravo Bridge With work getting underway on the replacement of the Rio Bravo Bridge over the Rio Grande in greater Albuquerque’s South Valley, a bit of spelunking in one of the Internet’s unlit subterranean passages yielded this bit …
It is raining again in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as I type these words. But the latest forecast from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts remains meh for the December-January-February snowpack season across the headwaters of the Rio Grande and the upper reaches of the Colorado River. Arizona looks wetter.
Daniel Swain on the next wave of Four Corners storms expected this weekend (Halloween 2026): The fact that this pair of back-to-back extreme-to-record shattering rain events across the interior Southwest have occurred during the autumn during (one of the) strongest El Niño events on record is not a coincidence! Such events are known to be …
The Rio Puerco (the eastern one, there’s two, this is the one that flows into the Rio Grande south of Belen, New Mexico) took its turn yesterday, with historic flows from the tropical storm remnants that have been drenching the Four Corners states. I have no idea who Jon Finley is, but we’re forever in …
Green acreage in non-Pueblo MRGCD irrigable parcels, summer 2026 2026 provided a remarkable convergence of a natural experiment on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande (a river and therefore irrigation system with little or no water) and the rapid advancement of what I’ve come to think of as “Curiosity Exploder Tools” (CETs, also more commonly known …
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Whiplash.
I took advantage of the break between Storm 2 and Storm 3 to wander the South Valley this morning. It was a great ride – lots of ditch banks, some weird urbanity (the Walmart parking lot where Frank Hubbell’s farm used to be, read our book to learn about the failed tobacco farming empire of …