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w <br />-2- <br />reservoir storage for Colorado below Kersey are mostly empty. Figures 8 and 9 show that reservoir <br />storage for Colorado above Kersey are also still recovering. <br />Snow Pack <br />Statewide snoev pack for Colorado as of November 6, 2005 is shown in Figure 10. Overall snow <br />pack for Colorado is 157 percent of average with the South Platte basin at 171 percent of average. <br />This figure demonstrates how the good precipitation in October has affected the State. Howevep, <br />extreme caution should be used with regazd to this data because October is only the first of the seven <br />months of the peak snowfall season. Climate forecasters ha.ve suggested that this will be an El Nino <br />year with above average precipitation in the fall and spring. Hopefully, these predictions will pan <br />out. <br />III. SUMMARY <br />Unfortunately, the South Platte reservoirs in the lower part of Colorado are below average; however, <br />the upper basin reservoirs are in slightly better shape. Long-term forecasts ha.ve suggested a weg fall <br />and wet spring. These weather conditions and relea.ses from storage ma.y help relieve the stresses of <br />drought in Nebraska in the next year, but it is too early to tell whether there will be any significant <br />recovery in the spring or summer of next year. <br />iNTERNET REFERENCES <br />• Colorado Stream Flow Data - http://dwr.state.co.uslhvdrologv/flow search.asp <br />• Surface Water Supply Index - http://www.co.nres.usda.gov/snow <br />• Snow Pack - http://www.co.nres.usda.gov/snow <br />• Snow Water Equivalent - http://www.co.nres.usda.gov/snow <br />• Reservoir Storage - http:/lwww.co.nres.usda.gov/snow <br />• S1ream Flow Forecast - hrip://www.co.nres.usda.gov/snow <br />Flooa Pnocection • water Pmjecc Plazmmg ana F'mum . sa+eam aaa Lake Prot"on <br />Water Supply PmoecOion • ConSavation Plannmg