diff --git a/components/elm/src/main/surfrdUtilsMod.F90 b/components/elm/src/main/surfrdUtilsMod.F90
index a0cdd13e5911..2c1e42559dac 100644
--- a/components/elm/src/main/surfrdUtilsMod.F90
+++ b/components/elm/src/main/surfrdUtilsMod.F90
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ subroutine check_sums_equal_1_3d(arr, lb, name, caller)
     if (found) then
        write(iulog,*) trim(caller), ' ERROR: sum of ', trim(name), ' not 1.0 at nl=', nindx, ' and t=', tindx
        write(iulog,*) 'sum is: ', sum(arr(nindx,t,:))
-       write(iulog,*) arr(nindx,t,:)
        call endrun(msg=errMsg(__FILE__, __LINE__))
     end if