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<br />.5. <br /> <br />Colorado needing repair. This year....e didn't add any nc\\ sites. but arc \\'orking with <br />communities anll will hopefully be putting in nco,,, ones this year. <br /> <br />1_..l<r.r.....fI[lIl(llJ...el...~-.:t-l:t-_1 <br /> <br />i <br />~ , <br />. <br />. <br />I <br />l . <br /> '"'' <br /> , <br /> <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />10/16 <br /> <br />"''' <br /> <br />11/1' <br /> <br />M' <br /> <br />"'" <br /> <br />,~ <br /> <br />~. <br /> <br />."" <br /> <br />.,'" <br /> <br />""" <br /> <br />~.. <br /> <br />Colorado Climate Center CSt) (Nolan Ilocskcn) - Nolan showed several graphs of <br />temperature readings from October through March from stations around the Slate. In general. <br />there was a December cold wave and then a ..cry wann January through carly February. There <br />was a short cold wave in February and then it wam1t:d up again, <br />. On the western slope. at Corte/. and Grand Junction. they didn"t have as warm of\\intcr as other <br />parts orthe State. As far as climate. we had a statewide extreme warm spell in January. before <br />the real '\i,lrrn spell that endl.:d Fl.:bruary. <br />. The Oklahoma & New Mexico drought is shared by the soulh plains orColorndo, The slonn <br />track carne across Oregon nOI California. <br />. Nol.1Il is in charge orthe CoCoRas project that has brings in o\"Cr 800 rain gage reports regularly. <br />Infonnation about it is at http://....ww.cocorahs.orgl <br /> <br />I)i\..isioll of WOlter Resources S\\'SI RCllOrl (Keith V..Il dl'r Horst). Keith reviewed the S\\,'SI report <br />basin by basin that is posled at http://\Valer.slate.co.uslpubs/swsi.asD. <br />. South Platte - has 10 years of data in the graphs and it looks good this year. The Soulh Platte <br />stream gage near Kersey is 82% of average. In winter the plains reservoirs arc tilling; they leave <br />space and thl.:n in the spring Ihey lOp olT. Mosl orthe reservoirs will Ii II this spring. <br />. Arkansils - The basin water supplies arc slightly above nonnal and the good numbers arc due 10 <br />high snlcmpack in northern part of the rnain.stem urthe Arkansas. At Portland the cumulative <br />110w is 170% of average, John Martin Reservoir is 10\\ this year: it eithl.:r has waler or it doesn.!. <br />For 1100d control it tilled up and did its job. in the 1980s and 1990s. Annuall1uctuations from <br />winter storage and spring releases so this reservoir experiences large swings. <br />. Rio Grande. the S\\'SI numbers arc low and it's similar to the 2002 extreme drought. Thl.:re <br />has been a gradual drop in 110ws since October and this will continue biased on snow in San Juan <br />J\tountains. The Rio Grandl.: resen'oir is not a major source l.)fwater for a lot of water users: a lot <br />of water use is biased on direct l10w water rights <br />. (;unnisnn. UnComl}a~hr{' - The \\aler commissioner down there reports thallhere is not a lot of <br />IO\~ elevation sno\\pack this :-ear. Gunnison basin resenoirs arc doing wdl. Blue ~lcsa w ill till <br />this Yl.:ar. <br />. Colorado ~ it has been \\et in 2006 due to gl.lod snow pack. The Coloradll River near Dotsero is <br />right above Glclmood canyon and reported 930 cfs: thl.: long-tenn averagc is 94Scfs. Green <br />~lount.1in and Williams Fork reser\'Oirs arc doing well. <br />. Yampa/White - right now the water sllppl:- numbers arc good because ofsmmpack. <br /> <br />FJonj PrOlc-l."'!lOn. Wdll'r Proj('(1 PLanmng.lnd FUl.lfl('('. SIrt'.Im.lnd ldlt PlOIt'('UOn <br />W.lln Supply PrOl('(1JQn. ComCY'.-JIlOn Pl.lnmng <br />