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<br />. <br /> <br />--".~ .. <br />, <br /> <br />Below is a table (2) with liquid water equivalent for the snowfall precipitation for the <br />towns of Ouray, Silverton and Ridgeway during the seeding events. The precipitation <br />records were obtained from the National Weather Service, <br /> <br /> Precipitation Precipitation Precipitation <br />Event Operational During During During <br /> Operation Operation Operation <br />Nll. ~ For Ourav For Silverton For RidllWay <br />1 Nov, 12, 1997 .21 ,05 .25 <br />2 Nov. 14, 1997 .12 none .15 <br />3 Nov. 16, 1997 none none none <br />4 Nov. 17-18, 1997 none none none <br />5 Nov. 19-21, 1997 ,10 .05 none <br />6 Nov. 21-23,1997 none none none <br />Table 2, Precipitation received at the towns of Ouray, Silverton and Ridgway during <br />the operational dates. <br /> <br />Below is a table (3) listing the weekly snowpack in liquid water equivalent from the <br />SNOTEL sites for Lizard Head Pass and Red Mountain Pass, Data was not available <br />each day and the table reflects only the days that data was available. Correlation on the <br />precipitation amounts between the seeded event and the SNOTEL data can be seen by <br />comparing the respective tables. <br /> <br /> Lizard Red <br /> -' Head Mountain <br />Dat~ (J 0200 ft) (J 1600 ft) <br />Nov. 9, 1997 0.60 1.00 <br />Nov. 21, 1997 2.40 2.50 <br />Nov.22,1997 2.40 2.90 <br />Nov. 30, 1997 3.80 4.90 <br />Dec. 6, 1997 4.30 5,50 <br /> <br />Table 3. SNOTEL snowpack in liquid water equivalent. <br /> <br />NOTE: Normal precipitation (water equivalent) through December I, for Red Mountain <br />is 5.5", Normal precipitation (water equivalent) through December I, for Lizard <br />Head Pass is 2,0" <br />