CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The U.S. Drought Monitor, as well as the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Drought Monitoring Task Force, has observed improvements in the drought in many places in Virginia, but not the Charlottesville area.
The City of Charlottesville, Albemarle, Louisa, Nelson, Augusta, and Rockingham counties remain in “extreme” drought despite recent spotty rain, some of it heavy, having fallen on the area over the past week.
“On Thursday of this week, the U.S. Geological Survey reported that the Rivanna River near Charlottesville was at an all-time low for that day in history,” reported Jeff Ishee with On the Farm Radio…