05/09/2025
🌧️ 🌧️ Did the Recent Rains End Our Drought? 💧
Not quite.
While the recent rainfall has brought short-term relief to plants and lawns, it hasn’t ended the drought where it matters most — in our water supply reservoirs and aquifers.
📉 The Corpus Christi and Choke Canyon reservoirs — our region’s key surface water sources — remain well below normal capacity.
📉 Our groundwater levels are also slow to respond. It often takes months or even years for rainfall to meaningfully recharge aquifers, especially in semi-arid regions like South Texas.
You can track our surface water supply in real time:
🔹 Corpus Christi Reservoir: https://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/corpus-christi
https://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/corpus-christi
🔹 Choke Canyon Reservoir: https://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/choke-canyon
https://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/choke-canyon
💡 Why it matters: Even if the grass is green today, our long-term water security depends on deeper sources — and those recover much more slowly. Rainfall doesn’t automatically translate into water we can use.
âś… Takeaway: Every drop still counts. Keep conserving and stay informed.
The elevation-storage rating curve used to produce the storage hydrograph is made of two segments: (1) the segment up to the conservation pool top (below the red line) is based on measured data, and (2) the segment in the flood pool (above the red line) is an extrapolation from the first segment and...
