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<br />storage in the Rio Grand and the San Juan, but things are improving there. And Statewide, we <br />probably seen the height of our reservoir storage will peak out in March, and now we're seeing <br />demands take their toll and as we continue with demands, we'll continue to drop well below <br />average, probably pretty well drain the reservoirs this year. SWSI (Surface Water Supply Index) <br />values for May, all negative, of course. You see decreases this month in all basins. In 4 basins, <br />we saw record low index values. Those are the South Platte, the Arkansas, The YampalWhite, and <br />the Dolores/San Juan. So the lowest index values we've recorded since 1981 in those basins there. <br />You can see this has been the general trend back in November we were below average but we <br />weren't nearly as dead as we are now. It's just been steadily decreasing. <br /> <br />- How much is the value being driven by the storage in reservoirs? <br /> <br />Mike - It varies by basin. The weighting factor is different in each basin, depending on how much <br />volume is there for storage. <br /> <br />_ - In Gunnison, there's...its already melted out...you get a high storage <br />value.. . (inaudible). ... <br /> <br />Mike - Where the snowpacks melted out? Snowpack's gone. <br /> <br />_ - And it's just sitting in the water in the reservoir. Essentially, (inaudible)... <br /> <br />Mike - There was some snow on May 1 st, when this was calculated, but I mean, when we <br />calculate the June SWSI, snowpack is not a variable, so.... <br /> <br />_ - Mike, does that mean that if we have a heavy drawdown of those reservoirs over the <br />spring and summer, that the SWSI numbers are going to really drop fast, because I think the point <br />of their questions is its buoying it up right now. The reservoirs. You might expect over the <br />summer to have those minus numbers go down quite a bit. <br /> <br />Mike - Well, they're not going to do down much farther, because you basically can't. That's <br />probably why the Yampa White is at -3.9, because it doesn't have reservoirs in the SWSI. So if <br />you took reservoirs out, conceivably, you should all be at 3.9. May that's your point. <br /> <br />_-That answers our question. <br /> <br />? - It's just kind of indicative of surface water supply...when the surface water supply goes away, <br />then the numbers go down at the bottom, about 4. Because there's no question that if you draw the <br />reservoir down this year, which we will, then the surface water index is going to... what that <br />means is, to get back up is going to take longer and certainly average moisture isn't going to get us <br />there fast. Eventually, we'll catch up (?). <br /> <br />_ -Next year's also 20% of normal. We can't get lower than 3%. <br /> <br />10 <br />