9366

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9366
• Author: Upper Colorado River Recovery Implementation Program.
• Title: 1999 Coordinated Reservoir operations Bypasses for Endangered Fish.
• USFW Year: 1999.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 1 shows the snowpack update readings from the Natural Resource Conservation Service's
automated SNOTEL (SNOwpack TELemetry) sites. This system has replaced many of the
manual measurements at remote sites. The period 1961-1995 was used to calculate averages.
' Table 1
Snow-Water Accumulation
1

1
I

1

1

Watershed Aprill Snow-Water
Content (inches)
Comparative Apr. 1 Snow-Water Content

CBT Project

1999 1961-95

Avg.
% of
Avg.

1998

1997

1996

1995
Green Mountain WS 13.2 14.4 92 13.3 18.6 22.8 14.7
Willow Creek WS 8.2 9.6 85 12.6 12.2 12.6 7.3
Lake Granby WS 9.2 11.9 77 17.8 14.0 17.8 10.0
Lake Estes ES 6.5 10.5 62 16.6 7.6 16.6 7.4
St. Vrain ES 6.4 9.4 68 17.5 8.6 17.5 6.7
Poudre ES 10.3 12.8 80 18.1 10.0 18.1 10.1
Fry-Ark Project
Upper ArkansasES 10.6 12.7 83 11.4 16.1 16.1 13.9
Frying an R. WS 10.2 14.7 69 11.3 16.5 18.0 15.2