List/Grid Author Archives: John Fleck / Journal Staff Writer
Village is high and dry
Water so scarce in northeast N.M. community that state regulators fear contaminants in pipes
Maxwell’s fate tied to drought in the Canadian River watershed
update: Here’s our story on Maxwell from the Sunday paper The Canadian River is small, even by New Mexico standards. But lately, it’s been smaller still. As it passes the... Read more »
Base flow, drought, and the problems of Maxwell, New Mexico
update: Here’s our story on Maxwell from the Sunday paper Journal photographer Roberto Rosales and I spent a day last week visiting the village of Maxwell, in northeast New Mexico.... Read more »
Water flowing to valley farms, but for how long?
Drought hangs over irrigation season as ditches start to fill.
Middle Rio Grande Valley water irrigation season beginning, but with drought, how much water, and for how long?
The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District began diverting water into its irrigation ditches this week, but uncertainty hovered in the background over how much water valley farmers will get, and... Read more »
Drought watch: what the Albuquerque water utility did and did not do
As I reported in this morning’s newspaper, the board of Albuquerque’s municipal water utility is launching us into what they call a “drought watch”, which involves increased fines for letter... Read more »
Drought watch: third-driest start to an Albuquerque ‘water year’ since early 1900s
Since Oct. 1, we’ve had a total of 0.58 inches of rain at Albuquerque’s National Weather Service gauge, out at the airport. How does that rank? Oct. 1 is the... Read more »
Price tag for National Nuclear Security Administration South Carolina plant is rising
NNSA head Neile Miller acknowledged in a congressional hearing today that the price tag for the agency’s mixed oxide fuel plant in South Carolina (that’s “MOX”, turning weapons plutonium into... Read more »
Star party Saturday on Albuquerque’s west side
The Albuquerque Astronomical Society is holding a free star party Saturday evening (March 2, 2013) beginning at 7 p.m. at the Albuquerque Open Space Visitors Center. From the news release:... Read more »
How many weapons are there in the US nuclear arsenal?
4,688 That’s the latest estimate from Hans Kristensen at the Federation of American Scientists. If, like me, you don’t have a security clearance, this is the closest we can get... Read more »
Sandia planning jet fuel burn
Sandia National Laboratories is planning a controlled jet fuel fire this morning (Tues. 2/26/2013) between 7 and 9 a.m. The experimental fires, conducted in Coyote Canyon in the Manzan Mountain... Read more »
