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Down under: Rio Rancho is refilling its aquifer, but some wells are still slipping

By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Rio Rancho’s groundwater stopped sinking about a decade ago. But the recovery hasn’t reached every neighborhood, and shallow wells near the Rio Grande have dropped sharply in the last couple of years. Water levels fell from about 2005 to 2015, then rebounded “at various magnitudes.” That’s according to researchers […]

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