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Low Snowpack, High Storage Offers Mixed Message for Northern Colorado Water Supply

Low Snowpack, High Storage Offers Mixed Message for Northern Colorado Water Supply

April 3, 2018 by Wingfoot Water Resources, LLC

Photo: Erin Hull/The Coloradoan

WRITTEN BY
Jacy Marmaduke, The Coloradoan

The mountain snowpack that feeds Northern Colorado’s water supply is ending the snow season on the same tune that has persisted for months: Worse than usual, but better than most of Colorado.

Snowpack in the Upper Colorado and South Platte river basins typically peaks in early to late April. As of April 3, those basins had 78 percent and 84 percent of the normal snow-water equivalent for this time of year, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The Laramie and North Platte River basins, which have some influence on Fort Collins water supply, top the state with 92 percent of normal.

“The South Platte and Upper Colorado basins are below average, but they are certainly in better shape than the southwestern and southern parts of the state,” where snowpack is barely half the normal amount, said Jeff Stahla, Northern Water public information coordinator.
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