New Mexico Yards, Rocks/Grass
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 31-08-2009
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I have received some comments on homes in New Mexico having rocks in their yards and the question asked as to why…. Not every home has rocks, but we all have one problem…water shortage…Did you know that much of the water flowing through New Mexico in the Rio Grande River and the Pecos River belong to Texas… We can keep our share only…And once they sued us, big time, for not releasing a sufficient amount of water, water they believed we owed them…And I guess we did as the Supreme Court (or some higher power than the States of New Mexico and Texas) agreed that we must repay the water to them…That was really tough in some of the dry years and our reservoirs were really low. Also, the water table has been losing water for some time now. We have Texas paid for the old water and the last two years we have had good snow run off and that has helped…We are told to cut back on watering our yards to conserve water and a lot of us have rocks in our yards instead of grass. I have rocks front and on the sides and partial rocks in the back. I have a small area in the back, roughly 100′ long and approximately 25′ wide, but it is a z shape….That is my grass and I enjoy it….Water is very precious here and we all recognize that fact..There are a few that require a water patrol who issue warning and fines for abusing water usage…So we try to conserve water anyway we can…Albuquerque gets about 10 inches of rain fall per year..We get a snow or two per year in the valley…the mountains gets enough rain and snow to support beautiful pine and fur trees… and aspen up above 8000 feet…The peak of the Sandia Mountains is 10,683 feet..they get lots of rain up there…The Rio Grande River is at 4900 feet elevation and my house on the west side is 5653 feet, but we don’t get much rain at the lower levels..Thats probably more than you wanted to know about “rocks in New Mexico yards”, but thats why we have them….
Pete,
New Mexico in general and Albuquerque in particular has always had a water shortage. That is the way the Lord made them. But both have an excess of enchantment. It is an Enchanted Land. Enchanted lands do not require a lot of water. Water shortages may be felt more acutely now because of an excess of people. When I was in Albuquerque in the late Sixties, it had barely 300,000 people (and the state barely had a million). Now I suppose there is close to a million in the City of Albuquerque. A million people demand a lot of water. Get rid of some of your people and think like a Volkswagen beetle owner (think small), and your water problems will disappear. New Mexico will become an Enchanted Land again.
California is burning. It has always burned when the Santa Ana winds began to blow off the dry hills to the east. Nobody knew it was burning until California became so crowded with million dollar homes next to every rock. People only began to complain as their million dollar homes began to burn. Take away the people and California becomes an “enchanted land” again. Watch out New Mexico! If you continue to attract more and more people, you will lose your enchantement and become just like California. Now that is a horrible thought.
Amen, a horrible thought. And by the way, we had some terrific rainfall the last few days. Nice….
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