Thursday, August 28, 2014

Trace Amounts of Rain in August

Stage II Alarm Drought
Barton Springs flow: 32.3 cfs 10-day average
Lovelady monitor well: 472.03 ft-msl

August has turned out to be a very dry month. At the time of this post, rain gauges at the District offices, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, and Camp Mabry received little more than trace amounts of moisture during the entire month. The historic average rainfall for August is just over 2 inches. As a result of this lack of precipitation, water levels in the aquifer continue the descending trend that lead the District Board of Directors to declare Stage II Alarm drought at their last meeting on August 14. 

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