…But This Year They Didn’t
But Bird said that much of the rain that fell this season fell in regions south of Elephant Butte, making it useless in replenishing the reservoir.
“We’re in a time right now where we’re seeing all our reservoirs, our surface water, and even our groundwater dry up, and so we’re coming into a period of time where we’ll have real critical issues with having enough water,” he said. “Until we get an extended period of normal to above-normal precipitation, that’s not going to alleviate itself.”
