Late snow, ‘miracle May’ best NM water news in years [View all]
After three very dry years in a row, this year’s spring runoff and river flow, merely OK by some measures, is looking pretty special.
May rains and late-season snow put enough water into the Rio Grande to boost its flow to the highest level in five years, meet the needs of farmers and still leave enough for storage.
“The miracle May set up things very nicely for the district going into summer,” said Mike Hamman, CEO and chief engineer of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, which delivers water to about 70,000 acres of cropland in the middle Rio Grande Valley.
Miracle or not, this May was the eighth-wettest on record for New Mexico. Albuquerque received 1.86 inches of rain, well above its half-inch average for the month.
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