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<br />COLORADO BASIN <br /> <br />Basinwide Conditions Assessment <br />The SWSI value of -0.9 indicates that for February <br />the basin water supplies were near normal. The Natural <br />Resourees Conservation Serviee reports that Mareh 1 <br />snowpaek is 98% of normal. Flow at the gaging station <br />Colorado River near Ootsero was 656 efs, as eompared to <br />the long-term average of 952 cfs. Storage in Green <br />Mountain, Ruedi, and Williams Fork reservoirs totaled 101 % <br />of normal as of the end of February. <br />Snowpaek for the entire Colorado River basin is <br />near normal, whieh represents the best Mareh 1 snowpaek <br />eonditions in the basin sinee 1997, aeeording to the <br />"Colorado Basin Outlook Report Mareh 1, 2005" (NRCS). <br />Signifieant variations oeeur throughout the basin. The <br />Plateau Creek basin is doing very well at 164% of average, <br />while the Blue River basin and the Williams Fork River basin <br />are at only about 80% of average. <br /> <br />Outlook <br />The NRCS foreeasts that April-July stream flows will <br />vary from 75% of average on Muddy Creek below Wolford <br />Mountain Reservoir to 104% of average for Willow Creek <br />Reservoir inflow. Colorado River near Cameo stream flow is <br />foreeasted at 85% of average. <br /> <br />Mar-OS <br /> <br />~H_ <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br /> <br />w <br />o <br />~ <br />~ . <br />o <br />~ <br /> <br />> <br />" <br />o <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />, <br />__ Nt-'J/ Jm.98 Jln-99..a...oo JIn1l1 Jon.ll2 M>03 J<r>-04 ~ <br />-,~ <br /> <br />COl~ R1Vffi t-R OOTSERQ. FLON BY MlER YEAA <br /> <br />7oo,00J <br /> <br />600,00> <br /> <br /> <br />;; <br />. <br />~ <br />roo,oo> <br />g 4OO,00J <br />~ <br />~ <br />~"",oo> <br />~ <br />~ 2OO,00J <br />=> <br />" <br />100,(0) <br /> <br />o <br />at <br /> <br />"'" <br /> <br />Ja> <br /> <br />Doc <br /> <br />Fro <br /> <br />..... <br /> <br />"" <br /> <br />--e--- V\ET (1984) <br /> <br />-- CRY (2002) <br /> <br />~AVG <br /> <br />-><- 2005 <br /> <br />REPRES::NTA"Tl'Vt: RESERI.O~ <br /> <br />80,00> <br /> <br />70,00> <br /> <br /> <br />80,00> <br />;; <br />.. <br />~50.00> <br />. <br />oi <br />W40,<m <br />g <br />'" <br />~:l),COO <br />~ <br />=> <br />20,600 <br /> <br />10,COO <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />"""""""" <br />.~ O2I28CatErts <br /> <br />""" <br /> <br />WI>aro Fa!< <br />10>I2&ffi Catms <br /> <br />7 <br />