From The Pueblo Chieftain:
Fred Heckman, a farmer in McClave, says that area has had no appreciable rain since July. “Yes,” he says, “we’re concerned.” Doubly troubling is that the subsoils are very dry, according to the Colorado State University Research Center at Rocky Ford…
It’s too early to tell what the snowpack on the upper reaches of the Arkansas River basin will be during the winter snow season. But the water storage in Lake Pueblo is more than 120 percent of average, while Turquoise and Twin Lakes are at about average for this time of year.