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MRGCD Ballot Set
The ballot has been set for the upcoming Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District board election. The election’s June 7. From Tom Thorpe over at MRGCD, the official list: DISTRICT... Read more »
Moving Water to the Butte
The upper reaches of Elephant Butte Reseservoir pose a fascinating problem. As Rio Grande water slows, it drops its sediment, building a natural delta in the upper reaches of the... Read more »
San Augustin Ranch Breaks Silence
Update – 4/11/2011: Augustin Plains Ranch LLC has sent me a revised copy of the white paper. See here for the latest and greatest, then drop back by this post... Read more »
Dry Streak Ends
It wasn’t much, but the 3/100ths of an inch of rain that just fell at the Albuquerque airport was enough to end our 64-day streak of misery. The... Read more »
LANL Seismic Retrofit Costs
Some links and background for this morning’s story about the cost of seismic retrofits to Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Plutonium Facility. The story: It would cost between $40 million and... Read more »
NM Drought Conditions Expand
All of New Mexico is now abnormally dry or in drought, according to today’s updated federal drought monitor. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=1 This week’s map swallowed up the last corner of... Read more »
Bringing the Water
Journal photographer Pat Vasquez-Cunningham snapped this great picture this morning of José Mora opening a gate on the old Duranes ditch in Albuquerque’s north valley. Pat and I are working... Read more »
Runoff Forecasts Look Increasingly Grim
The runoff forecast for New Mexico’s rivers is looking increasingly grim, with flow into Elephant Butte Reservoir now forecast at just 33 percent of normal. From the NRCS... Read more »
Republican Budget Calls for “Full Funding” for Nuke Labs
The House Republican budget plan made public this morning calls for “full funding” of the Obama administration’s effort to modernize U.S. nuclear weapons infrastructure. The plan, which is... Read more »
Sapphire Signs Monsanto Deal
Sapphire Energy, the California algae biofuel outfit that is building a pilot plant in southern New Mexico, has landed a deal with Monsanto to apply its genetic techniques to some... Read more »
Dry and Getting Drier
New Mexico’s snowpack is disappearing fast, and little of it is ending up in our rivers, as Albuquerque approaches its 60th consecutive day with no measurable precipitation. The... Read more »
Most of New Mexico Now in “Severe Drought”
Three quarters of New Mexico is now in “severe” drought, federal officials said Thursday. From the weekly “Drought Monitor“:
