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<br />- 7 - <br /> <br />reminded us that there is a 30-day waiting period so the time to purchase flood insurance is now! <br />. Mr. Houck also warned that the Huerfano County Commissioners stated that this was the wettest snowiest <br />winter in memory. Walsenburg already has 12" of precipitation on record. <br />. Mr. Brian Hyde has been tracking snowpack snow water equivalent on nearly a daily basis this season to <br />assist in the weekly snowmelt flood threat reporting done by the CWCB. Mr. Hyde has an debris flow <br />alluvial fan flooding presentation coming up at a Geological Society conference in late May in Grand <br />Junction. <br />. Mr. Joe Busto is the administrator for the Flood Task Force Meetings and co project manager with Steve <br />Hunter for the Enhanced Snowpack Assessment Project that uses SNODAS model runs to provide <br />snowpack information for the state by river basins. <br /> <br />Colorado Division of Emen!encv Mana2:ement (CDEM) <br />. Marilyn GaIly reminded local governments to keep good records of what they have spent on "disaster <br />preparedness or mitigation. Because iflocals exceed their capacity to deal with flooding events they can <br />use their Tabor reserve, (but need to replenish it next year). <br />. She also stated that local governments can go straight to entities like the National Guard or Colorado <br />Department of Transportation and don't need to go through the state first. <br />. For a Emergency or Disaster Declaration the Governor can declare it within the state but there is a <br />threshold that $5 million has to have been spent locally before this can happen. <br />. Larry Lang reminded that in emergencies the state will help. He stated that in 1983 the Governor took end <br />of year state funding and transferred $1 million to the state emergency fund before the end of the state <br />fiscal year of June 30. <br />. The CD EM office in now in Centennial, Colorado in the State's new emergency operations center at 9195 <br />East Mineral Avenue. Their main number at the emergency operations center is (720) 852-6600 and the 24- <br />hour emergency number is unchanged at (303) 279-8855. <br /> <br />Enhanced Snowoack Assessment (SNODAS) - USBR (Steve Hunter) <br />. USBR and CWCB are collaborating to map snowpack for water management and flooding potential. <br />Daily snow products are online for snow water equivalent, snow water equivalent change, and snow <br />depth for the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 season. The project has developed on line daily mapping <br />products that can be found at <br />htto://www.usbr.gov/omts/rivers/awards/SNODAS/SNODAS CO hist.html. The Bureau has <br />additional precipitation information for Colorado at the following site <br />htto:I /www.usbr.gov/omts/rivers/awards/Co/Colorado.html <br />. Steve Hunter presented the daily <br />mapping products for Colorado <br />statewide for basin I kilometer <br />SWE field data and the basin <br />average SWE for Colorado in a <br />two-week animation covering <br />4/19/05 - 5/02/05. <br />. Mr. Hunter noted that there was <br />been very little snowpack melt <br />to this point as seen in the basin <br />average mappmg. <br />. He presented the newest <br />SNODAS model products that <br />are snowpack temperature and <br />snowmelt at base of snowpack. <br />. He presented some graphs <br />comparing SNOTEL data and <br /> <br />Flood Protection . Water Pro <br />Water SUPf <br /> <br /> <br />Newest SNODAS model output for Colorado is online, (left) <br />snowpack temperature, (right) melt at snowpack base <br />