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August 6, 2025
“There’s just no water in the system,” said Cleave Simpson, the general manager of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District. He was talking to us on Tuesday, Aug. 5, about the startling conditions of the Upper Rio Grande Basin that showed a flow of 36 cubic-feet per second at the Alamosa County line. The river was flowing 15 cfs at the Lobatos Bridge.
The warnings about this year’s dryness go back to February when we saw a string of 60-degree days and then more record heat back in April. Fast forward to August and what’s been a relatively dry summer with less than an inch and a half of accumulated precipitation and we see very little water in the river.
Much of the Great Basin is under intense fire restrictions.
