Drought Conditions in the News
January 20, 2009
The continuing and worsening drought conditions being experienced in Central Texas have been much in the news during the final days of 2008 and the first weeks of the new year. In December, the US Drought Monitor reported that the conditions in several Central Texas counties, including Blanco County, had reached the most dire status of “Exceptional.”
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Blanco County Drought Conditions
January 20, 2009
Blanco County drought condition as of January 13th – D4 Exceptional
(The US Drought Monitor ranges from D0 – Abnormally Dry to D4 – Exceptional)
http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/DM_state.htm?TX,S
NOTE: Blanco County has been in Severe to Extreme drought conditions since February, 2008 and under Exceptional conditions since December, 2008 according to the US Drought Monitor. The drought is classified as both hydrological and agricultural. The current period of drought conditions began in October, 2007.
Texas Water Development Board Drought Information
June 27, 2008
The current issue of the “Aquifer Monitor”, an electronic newsletter published by Dr. Robert Mace, Director of the Groundwater Resources Division of the Texas Water Development Board, alerts us to drought management steps being taken by the San Antonio Water Supply Company and directs us to several useful sources of information about droughts.
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