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Colorado Central Magazine

Briefs from the San Luis Valley

Brief by Marcia Darnell

San Luis Valley – June 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine

Rain on Me

The word in the San Luis Valley is a grim one — drought.

The snowpack for the upper Rio Grande basin is 12 percent of normal. State water division engineer Steve Vandiver says it will take a Noah-type rain to bring us up to normal wetness.