Blizzard

[Dougie]

Snow water database for Lake Powell shows drainages up to 86% of normal water equivalent for today. Jumped up from the upper 70s last week, so one storm can really help. We need 4-5 more

 

[Dougie]

Last spring we were 109% on 4/1 but inflow to Powell was a disaster because dry soils soaked it all up before it got into the Colorado or into the San Juan.

 

[fishfry]

Closed low with a northerly track . Kinda missed us down south besides you guys in t ride and of course wolf .. we will take all we can get. Still a ways below average. My homies in Idaho springs and evergreen got around 4 feet !

I grew up in I.S.

 

[Outside]

Closed low with a northerly track . Kinda missed us down south besides you guys in t ride and of course wolf .. we will take all we can get. Still a ways below average. My homies in Idaho springs and evergreen got around 4 feet !

My folks used to live way up above Evergreen on jefco line and those upslope storms can be biblical!

 

[Jwc]

I grew up in I.S.

Awesome man !! I grew up on Floyd hill ! Moved away in 2000, a lot has changed !!

 

[Jwc]

My folks used to live way up above Evergreen on jefco line and those upslope storms can be biblical!

That’s real close to where I grew up ! Floyd hill .. CC jefco line

 

[Dorado]

I would not call this a Blizzard... the weather channel might. they over hype everything. Just a low moving through...

They do hype every storm, but they got this one right. Major interstates still closed after 3 days!!!

 

[Cutter99]

OK, now that the Blizzard is over, time to really hijack this thread! I'm a Colorado guy, front range in FTC.
With all the talk of snow falling more on the East side, or West side of the divide, It made me wonder how many diversions there are (tunnels going from west to east) that carry water to the front range. I heard at one time there were 9, but I can't confirm or deny. Seems high.
So that's a lot of water... Makes me wonder how much of a difference that makes in the grand scheme of the Colorado river.
Any water experts want to put in a guess? And can anyone confirm the number of diversions?

 

[Todd]

I know of 9.

 

[flowerbug]

i was trying to find some actual numbers, this article comes up with 532,000af of TD water. i'm not sure how accurate that number might be...

Dividing waters: How a compact call might unfold on Western Slope

Coloradans use, or deplete, an annual average of 2.5 million acre-feet of water from the state’s various river basins that send water down the Colorado River system to Lake

www.vaildaily.com

 

[Havalina]

I think that Arizona and parts of California need to follow El Paso’s lead and up their use of closed looped recycled water for at least one pass.

 

[PBR]

 

[Todd]

Yep my guys ran fiber through all those tunnels for control systems about 10-12 years ago. There is also the Grizzly tunnel on independence pass that flows east under the divide.

 

[Coho975]

The bulk of the storm in WY hit east of the divide....

 

[Squirrel]

That’s real close to where I grew up ! Floyd hill .. CC jefco line

Some of us still live on the Clear Creek/Jeffco line, but I’m in Brook Forest Estates. Sq

 

[Outside]

Some of us still live on the Clear Creek/Jeffco line, but I’m in Brook Forest Estates. Sq

Cedar rd, right up the hill.

 

[Squirrel]

I’m on Cedar, I’ve got all the signs on the garage. How did you know? I guess that boat won’t be going out for a while. Sq