The river in Alamosa is disappearing before our eyes. Literally.
The flows on the Upper Rio Grande and Conejos River are about as low as they’ve ever been, rivaling the year 2002, which is the measuring stick used for dryness from a multi-decade mega drought.
Call it the new normal – a river so dry that thick and tall brush has taken over the riverbed here in August. It gets worse downstream in New Mexico, where the Rio Grande has stopped flowing in Albuquerque and Elephant Butte Reservoir sits at less than 100,000 acre-feet of storage…