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Condition Monitoring Report  
Station Number: CO-RG-2
Station Name: Montevista 2.7 SSE
Report Date: 6/21/2021
Submitted: 6/21/2021 10:11 AM
Scale Bar: Severely Dry
Description:
The Drought Monitor shows the San Luis Valley as a no drought area. While it is true that our precipitation in the water year has been normal, normal is very low (less than the Sahara desert). What they have failed to account for is the fact that subsoil moisture is much worse, having followed a very dry year last year. The mountains, from which comes our irrigation water, are just soaking up the snow melt and cropland is so dry that what little irrigation water we get soaks away without covering the ground well. Hence, I still say we are in a severe drought!
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