9365

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9365
• Author: Upper Colorado River Recovery Implementation Program.
• Title: 1998 Coordinated Reservoir Operations Bypasses for Endangered Fish.
• USFW Year: 1998.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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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 1961-1990 is the period used to calculate averages.
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Table 1
Snow-Water Accumulation
May 1 Snow-Water
Watershed Content (inches) Com arative May 1 Snow-Water Content
1961-95
% of
CBT Project 1998 Avg. Avg. 1997 1996 1995 1994
WS - Blue River
13.3 14.6 91 20.5 23.4 18.5 13.1
Green Mountain
WS - Upper Colo. R. 6.5 7.7 84 13.2 10.4 7.5 5.3
Willow Creek
WS - Upper Color. R. 8.1 10.4 78 15.7 15.6 10.8 7.6
Lake Granby
ES - Big Thompson 9.3 10.3 90 15.4 14.4 11.3 8.4
Lake Estes
ES 10.5 9.9 106 15.7 14.9 11.6 9.2
St. Vrain
ES 10.9 12.9 84 15.4 16.9 14.0 12.5
Poudre
Fry-Ark Project
ES 13.0 13.0 100 18.6 15.5 15.6 9.0
Upper Arkansas
WS 13.1 13.5 97 17.5 16.9 17.7 11.4
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