Drought in Kentucky
Posted on October 14, 2007
The Louisville KY newspaper, The Courier-Journal, had an interesting article today on the front page of the Metro section. The title reads “Experts Watch Drought Grow Critical In State”. It goes on to discuss that Kentucky’s Water Availability Advisory Group have been in a lot of conference calls with other agencies across the state.
Various groups exchange information to try and get a better understanding of how severe and widespread the drought in Kentucky actually is. Reports state that there are private wells in southeastern KY that are going dry, and many small lakes are quite low. [I know that 1 of our 2 ponds, is in that same position. Its down to approximately half the level that it should be.]
Fortunately for our area in Louisville and Shelbyville Kentucky, things are bad, but not as bad as they are in other parts of the state. In southern Kentucky, they were in a drought late last year and had have very little rainfall. Estimates of 18 inches of rain below normal cover a lot of towns and communities in the southern part of the state.
Of Kentucky’s 120 counties, 66 are under a water shortage watch. 35 water systems have issued water conservation advisories to limit and regulate water consumption for unnecessary uses.
According to Stuart Foster, who is a state climatologist, says that if you compare conditions today across since records began being kept, this is one of the most serious droughts we’ve had in Kentucky’s history. He goes on to say that many places are going to have their driest year EVER.
Hopefully we can get some relief soon. Some good long soaking rains would definitely perk things back up before heading into winter.
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