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Colorado snowpack tops 140% in good year

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BY JERD SMITH FRESH WATER NEWS

Colorado is awash in white this spring, with statewide snowpack topping 140% of average this week, well above the reading a year ago, when it stood at just 97% of normal. “Conditions in the American West are way better than they were last year at this time,” state climatologist Russ Schumacher said at a recent joint meeting of the Water Availability Task Force and the Governor’s Flood Task Force. “In Colorado we went from drought covering most of the state to most of the state being out of drought.” Like other Western states, mountain snowpacks in Colorado are closely monitored because as they melt in the spring and summer, their runoff delivers much of the state’s water. A drought considered to be the worst in at least 1,200 years has devastated water supplies across the West. While no one is suggesting the dry spell is over, Colorado Kellie Buckhholz, with owner Ben Skoglund serving Jalapeno poppers, cherry, and apple pizza tastings. PHOTOS BY BELEN WARD water officials said 2023 will likely allow for a significant recovery in reservoirs and soil moisture. The snow is deepest in the southwestern part of the state, where BY BELEN WARD the San Juan/Dolores river basin BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM is seeing a snowpack of 179% of average. The best flavors money can buy The Yampa Basin, in the northin Fort Lupton were on full display west corner of Colorado, is also March 30 as the city’s Chamber of nearing historic highs, with snowCommerce marked another Taste of pack registering 145% of average, Fort Lupton event. according to the Natural Resources The Fort Lupton Recreation Center Conservation Service Snow Surwas packed March 30 in a showcase vey. of Fort Lupton’s culinary arts. There is considerably less white Fort Lupton’s House of Smoke stuff east of the Continental Divide brought samples of various smokein the Arkansas River Basin, where favored high-end types of meat. snowpack remains slightly below Every year before Thanksgiving, provide Hudson Ben’s Brick Pizza Oven First United Methodist Church in Fort Lupton and the Fort Lupton Food and Clothing Bank average and incommunity the South Platte Bamembers with food boxes. This will be the program’s 10th consecutive year. Above, Joe Hubert, left China Garcia and Sue Hubert with Change 4 Change, served tasty apple and cherry pizza sin, where snowpack is just above slices. Brighton’s Bougie Boba Bar average. another organization that helps with the food drive. See more on Page 2.

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