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Drought Mitigation
Title
Task Force Meeting Summary
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4/20/2006
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<br />All river basins have reached their snowpack peaks for the year. Colorado is having an early snow <br />meltout this year similar to that of 2002. In the past, Colorado has had a long-tenn trend of early runoffs <br />that posed a threat for flooding and higher demands in some areas of the State. <br /> <br />Predicted wanner temperatures from May 8 - May 18 and forecasted stonn events could trigger flash <br />flooding in June through July, particularly in the Ft. Collins area and Denver's Front Range. <br /> <br />Water Availabilitv Task Force (W ATF) Co-Chairs <br />Jack Byers, Deputy State Engineer, Division of Water Resources (DWR), and Veva McCaig, Section <br />Chief for the CWCB's Office of Water Conservation & Drought Planning, commenced the meeting. <br /> <br />Report from the Governor's Office <br />A representative from the Governor's Office was not in attendance. Instead, Frank McNulty, from the <br />Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) Executive Director's Office, made some brief comments. The <br />Governor continues to be interested in regular reports from the W A TF. Water supply infonnation and <br />flood condition updates need to be relayed to the Governor's office in a timely manner. The Governor <br />signed an executive order on 4/19/06 allocating $2 million to the State Forest Service for fighting <br />wildfires this season. <br /> <br />Report from the State Climatologist <br />Roger Pielke, State Climatologist, announced he will retire July 1, 2006 and Nolan Doesken will replace <br />him as the State Climatologist. Temperatures and precipitation for the month of March were about <br />average as was the statewide precipitation. Last month was the 48th wettest March for Colorado. <br /> <br />March had spotty precipitation throughout the State. The San Juan Mountains, in the southwest, received <br />average to above average moisture, but the southeast area of the State continues to have below average <br />precipitation. There is a lot of variability throughout the State for this water year. <br /> <br />Every year some portion of Colorado is in a drought. Currently 13% of the state is experiencing drought <br />conditions--mainly the southeast and southwest portions of the State. 2002 was a serious short-tenn <br />drought. Persistent dry conditions could move Colorado back to where we were in 2002. However, even <br />though the southeast area of the state currently has the driest conditions, Colorado is not having as serious <br />drought conditions as the neighboring states. <br /> <br />Report from Natural Resources Conservation Service <br />Mike Gillespie, from Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), reported that overall snowpack has <br />declined statewide. Snowpack conditions remain above average in the northern half of the state and far <br />below average in the southern part of the State. However in the South, snowpack improved with the <br />March 2006 snowstonns, in some places doubling. NRCS data indicates that statewide the April 1 <br />snowpack was 94% of average and as of April 19, the snowpack level had declined to 86% of average due <br />to snowmelt. Early meltout in most basins is occurring by as much as two to three weeks. The central <br />mountains still have above average snowpack, but it is dropping quickly. <br /> <br />All basins have reached their snowpack peak at this time and have begun to decline as melting begins. <br />The Yampa/White and North Platte Basins had the highest snowpack peaks while the Rio Grande and San <br />Juan/Dolores Basins had the lowest. Basin snow peak information is as follows: <br /> <br />Arkansas Basin snowpack peak was below average. <br />Colorado basin had an above average snowpack peak. <br />
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