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Date Posted: 09:52:11 05/01/09 Fri
Author: Varmit
Subject: Almost like Farmington... we live in Indian River County

Bone dry: Treasure Coast's current dry season sets record

Thursday, April 30, 2009

It�s official: It�s the driest of the dry.

According to the South Florida Water Management District, the current dry season, which began Nov. 2 and runs until the summer rains start, hopefully in late May, so far has been the driest since 1932 when precipitation records began being kept.

�We�re really at a critical point,� said Susan Sylvester, director of the district�s Operations Control Department. �And there�s no guarantee of when the wet season will kick in or where the rainfall will occur once it does.�

Ed Garland, spokesman for the St. Johns River Water Management District, said the dry season is �worst in the south, in Indian River and Brevard counties, and not as bad to the north.�

Derek Weitlich, a forecaster at the weather service in Melbourne, said there�s no reason to think the wet season will be anything but normal.

�El Nino and La Nina aren�t that big an influence on our weather as we get into late spring and summer,� Weitlich said.

�I hope we get rain and I hope it�s enough,� Sylvester said, �but as a water manager, I have to deal with what we have right now.�

And �what we have right now,� she added, is �a true hydro-meteorological drought.�

DROUGHT INDEX

The Keetch-Byram Drought Index measures soil dryness on a scale of zero to 800 with zero representing wet conditions and 800 being desert-like state. The area�s normal moisture range for summer is between 201 to 350. The following is the drought index as of Thursday:

� Indian River: 636

� St. Lucie: 614

� Martin: 671

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Hope you get some rain soon. New problems are starting to develop out here. Santa Fe is wanting to pull water out of the Pecos river and pipe it 150 miles. The watershed area for SF is not all that big and for years I've wondered how they plan to supply all those high dollar homes with water in years to come. They may think they can do whatever they please but there's a certain amount that has to flow on down to Texas. Same here with these rivers coming out of Colo that a percentage belongs to Calif. Cities are simply out growing their water source and there's going to be major problems. (NT) -- Hap, 23:28:07 05/03/09 Sun
- I was fixing to run a 2 inch pvc pipeline down to a pond about 500 feet from the 4 inch artesian well. Went to turn on the well, and the handle just goes round and round. So got to get the well man to come fix it. Last time he was here he put a new head on the well. That was 1977....lol. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:57:09 05/04/09 Mon
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