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<br />- 2 - <br /> <br />$6.6M, the CWCB $862K, locals $542K for a total of$8.6M million. We are working with FEMA and <br />Corps with levees and will host seminars throughout the state for hazards and risks behind the levees. <br />. Kevin Houck manages the flood response program for the CWCR We have provided SNODAS maps for <br />three years. We do briefings and updates every two weeks in high snowpack years that can be found on <br />our web site. Snowpack tables are how we monitor watersheds and long term weather forecasts from all <br />sources. We are scheduling meetings with locals and the Division of Emergency Management. (DEM) on <br />May 1 st. We also have a daily flood threat bulletin tailored for flood threat statewide in the spring and <br />summer months. <br />. Veva McCaig manages the CWCB' s Office office Water Conservation and Drought Planning and stated <br />that during August 6th through 8th there will be a conference for drought risk and climate change <br />focused for water providers and how to do a better job of planning for and adapting to climate change. . <br /> <br />Colorado Climate Center. CSU <br />. Nolan Doesken presentations are posted at htto://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu. There have been three <br />consecutive winter months with below <br />average temperatures. A PRISM map of <br />precipitation showed areas of the eastern <br />plains on the dry side and the rest of the <br />state wet. <br />. The difference between wet and dry in <br />Colorado is often a few storms. The U.S. <br />Drought Monitor shows drought around us <br />from Phoenix to Laramie with drought <br />holding its own around us. <br />. Every year it takes about two months to <br />melt out snow pack during a predictable <br />window but the peaks are less predictable. <br />. Colorado's biggest floods are from rains. <br />Weare going into heavy rain season in <br />April and may maximum. Really big floods <br />not that uncommon usually once per decade <br />and could not be forecasted even with <br />today's skill. We usually require warm <br />temperatures and widespread late season <br />snowpack including snow on south facing <br />slopes for snowmelt flooding. <br />. Rain on snow is not often a big problem and <br />is a bigger problem in Washington and <br />Oregon. Intense rains are localized. We can <br />get volume from summer rains that is as <br />much water as snow pack volume that is in <br />the streams. <br />. We have a higher likelihood of large peaks if <br />it stays cold in the spring. A cold April is a <br />good indicator that we might have snowmelt <br />flooding. After a couple of weeks of hot weather in May and things get interesting. <br /> <br /> <br />March 11, 2008 <br />VO'IlId8 O'I.m.EDT <br /> <br />,0 <br /> <br />0, <br />~<t:::> <br /> <br />~ <br />l:I DO Abnormally Of)' <br />o 01 Drought - Moderate <br /> <br />DroU(}f?t Jmoact Tynes <br />rJ Deline.:Iles dominanl impacts <br />A.. Agricuftural (crops. pastures. <br /> <br />http://drought.unl.eduldm <br /> <br />Colorado SNOTEL April 1 Snowpack Projection Map' <br /> <br />Percent of Average <br />.,0"" <br />D 13J. 149 <br />0110-129 <br />D9J-trn <br />D70-5'3 <br />[liiiilSO-69 <br />..m <br /> <br /> <br />Current as of Mar 15, 2008 <br /> <br />"Based m 50% Nrn-ExceedenceProjec~ons <br /> <br />Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection <br />Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning <br />