Continued rains in September are adding to a wet August and have all but a portion of Iowa with good soil moisture levels. Tim Hall tracks the water situation for the Iowa D-N-R, and says the state is running four inches ahead of normal this year and one foot ahead of the drought year in 2012.
But he can’t say the entire state has enough groundwater.

Hall says the water companies haven’t had a break.

Hall says it gets tougher and tougher for the dry area to fill up the aquifers as the calendar changes.

For more on Iowa’s water resource trends, go to: www.iowadnr.gov/watersummaryupdate.