Bureau staff developing a warning system to help prevent water outages.

A recent article by KRWG highlighted the work the bureau has done to update issues on the hydrogeology of the Magdalena area. Using data from the Bureau's work, and with support of a WRRI grant to address recharge issues bureau hydrogeologist Talon Newton, E&ES Professor Fred Phillips, and NMT student David Ketchum have developed a groundwater recharge model that maybe a useful tool to indicate regions of NM that may be heading toward extreme groundwater level declines. The idea is to develop a sort of warning system to help prevent water outages, like what occurred in Magdalena in the summer of 2013. The bureau also continues groundwater level monitoring efforts in the Magdalena region.