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Friday August 24, 2012 · 1:55 PM PDT

2012/08/24 · 13:55

I live in central New Mexico about 1/4 mile from one of the big irrigation ditches along the Rio Grande river. Two weeks ago they told us there would be no more water this year after August 15th because of the drought. Then they mowed the huge weeds on the ditch banks. All of them fell in the ditch of course. Then it rained a lot up north of us, so they opened the ditches to water again.

There are gates, like locks, all along the ditch, so the water can be controlled and delivered to the places that are scheduled for it. As the water came in, it carried all of the debris from mowing and clogged the gates.

Sometime late in the night the water overflowed the ditch.

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