Colorado Water
Snowpack is averaging 114% of normal compared to 88% last year at this time, according to the Rocky Mountain News [February 2, 2005, "Basins basking in snow"]. From the article, "Still, regions critical to Front Range water supplies, though improving, remain drier than average. Denver and Aurora's watersheds, for instance, registered 83 percent and 86 percent of average, respectively, as of late January...Eight major river basins comprise the state's watershed. As of Feb. 1, the San Juan and Upper Rio Grande basins in southwestern Colorado had the most abundant snow, both registering 154 percent of average, according to the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service. The South Platte, which supplies roughly half of metro Denver's water, was the driest in the state, registering 84 percent of average. The other major supplier to metro Denver, the Colorado River basin, was 103 percent of average. Snowpack: Gunnison 143; Upper Colo. 122; South Platte 84; North Platte 92; Yampa/White 92; Arkansas 113; Upper Rio Grande 154; San Juan 154; Statewide 114."
Cortez Journal: "The combined average of the San Miguel, Animas, San Juan and Dolores river basins was at 156 percent of normal Monday afternoon."
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