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<br />- 5 - <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />COLORADO. <br />PRISM1971-:i!OOOUe.anA.nnWlIPrecipitllion <br /> <br /> <br />--- <br />-:::. :7 <br />-~.." <br />---!II"-' <br /> <br />--ii.-.. <br />---,,-. <br />...,-.-. <br />--~... <br />~...... <br />---..-. <br />---..-. <br />-.~-~_.-. <br />.,"~." <br /> <br />,,,,, << .. ...- <br />---------- <br /> <br />--------"'- <br />-"'"*-'"-"",..,.-- <br />im'~-;r;-Ki <br /> <br />SWSI values show the South Platte, <br />Rio Grande, and Southwest basins <br />with abundant to above normal water <br />supply for storage. The YampalWhite <br />and Colorado are near normal but the <br />Arkansas Basin is a -1.6 making it in <br />a slight to moderate drought <br />conditions. <br />Both the Arkansas and South Platte <br />Basins have better flows allowing <br />more junior water rights to be utilized <br />and get diversions. Still South Platte <br />well users have been curtailed and <br />need to develop permanent augmentation plans. <br />Rio Grande at Del Norte stream gage is tracking above average. June flows were 155% of <br />normal. <br />San Juan, Dolores, Animas through Durango once June ends the flows will drop some but it <br />is quite a bit above normal this year. Spikes in May and June may help junior water rights, <br />buts it's a trade off between attenuated run off. The issue is slow run off as opposed to much <br />at once both have trade offs. <br />Free river flow means no call on the river by senior water rights. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Division of Wildlife (Marv Haelsted) <br />. Mary stated that the Elk and deer herds are doing well this year <br /> <br />Department of A2:riculture (Sheldon Jones) <br />. Range and farm conditions are generally <br />pretty good with the exception of the 1-70 <br />east corridor. The combination of <br />recovering from drought, frost, and <br />weeds will make it so that 50% of the <br />wheat will be poor to very poor this year. <br />. The land has not fully recovered from the <br />drought. The soil is still pretty dry below <br />two feet. <br />. Some of the recent rains have caused <br />weeds that don't help but from the rain <br />perspective it is looking very good. <br /> <br /> <br />Monthly Average Precipitation for Selected Sites <br />in the South Platte Basin <br />~ Hoosier Pass Evergreen <br />_Denver Stapleton ~Brighton <br />:*,,",Sterling <br /> <br />3.5 <br /> <br />u; 3.0 <br />~ <br />.<: <br />~ 2.5 <br />c <br />o 2.0 <br />i <br />"0.. 1.5 <br />'u <br />~ <br />a.. 1.0 <br /> <br />0.5 <br /> <br />0.0 <br /> <br />Month <br /> <br />Oct Nov Dee Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep <br /> <br />Colorado Climate Center - Nolan Doesken <br />. The map is Colorado's average annual precipitation map showing the most of it coming in high <br />elevations. <br />. This map also shows farming in the lower Arkansas basin that is led by irrigation. They don't <br />have much natural precipitation to work with. <br />. Nolan also showed precipitation totals by month for Hoosier Pass getting its precipitation totals <br />from October through May. He then showed Stapleton, Brighton, and Sterling sites to show that <br /> <br />Flood Protection . Water Project Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection <br />Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning <br />