There was very good news in last Wednesday’s Albuquerque Journal. The gates were opened at Diversion Dam and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District was moving water again. Oh yeah. We were excited.
In a nutshell, the conservancy district supplies irrigation water to about 62,000 acres of New Mexico’s farmland from Cochiti Dam to Socorro. From March through October, four small dams divert water from the Rio Grande into a network of 400 miles of irrigation canals, one of which runs right in front of Morning Bray Farm.
That means this:
Just yesterday turned into this:
And the boys can start dreaming about green pastures once again.
March 9, 2010 at 6:14 am
They are dreaming hard. Flat out napping.
Glad they have green pastures to look forward to.
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March 9, 2010 at 6:15 am
What a difference a day makes.
Di
The Blue Ridge Gal
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March 9, 2010 at 7:35 am
Now that’s a sure sign of spring. Party in the pasture!
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March 9, 2010 at 9:03 am
Wow – it must be so cool to hear the water arriving every spring, rushing down the formerly empty canal! Hurray for green pastures!
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March 9, 2010 at 11:13 am
Hurry up spring! We all want lush beds of grass to lie down on 🙂
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March 9, 2010 at 1:20 pm
I bet it’s a happy day when the water comes! I love the boys napping … enjoying the springtime sunshine!
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March 9, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Water. Glorious water and all that it brings. How different the canals/ditches look with water running through them.
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