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Increase in snowpack percentage deceiving
Carbondale :: IL :: USA | 24 days ago
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Colorado Winter weather that lingered well into April has helped push the mountain snowpack in some areas of the state well above normal for this late in the season, including the Roaring Fork watershed. The weekly Roaring Fork snowpack report issued
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State of Summit streams
Frisco :: CO :: USA | 29 days ago
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In this photo from December 2012, an in-town section of the Blue River flowing through Breckenridge dipped to low levels, showing drying in some areas. Summit County's snow level has increased to more than 90 percent of average for 2013, but Mother
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Colorado tops most endangered river list
Flagstaff :: AZ :: USA | 30 days ago
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A new ranking lists the Colorado River as the most-endangered river in the country, as increased demands on its water supply have put the river "at a breaking point." The annual ranking by American Rivers lists the 10 rivers most threatened by
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Email letters, April 22, 2013
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | 1 month ago
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Students start school at the age of five or six, spend at least seven hours per day for 160-180 days per year for a minimum of 12 years. Why are the reading, writing and math levels so low that 47 percent of the students attending in-state colleges
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Holm: Colorado River "Most Endangered," but not lost
Mexico City :: Mexico | 1 month ago
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This week brought a mix of gloom and sunshine to the water picture for the Colorado River Basin. Gloom came in the form of a report by the conservation group American Rivers, which declared the Colorado to be the Most Endangered River in America. The
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Basin snowpack to near normal after storms
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | 1 month ago
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Spring snowstorms in the central and northern Rocky Mountains this week boosted the snowpack in the Colorado River Basin to 97 percent of normal, according to the latest snow survey readings for the basin. Within the Roaring Fork River watershed
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Good news of deep snow in Colorado foiled by dust that will speed melt
Silverton :: OR :: USA | 1 month ago
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Font Resize The blessed snow that blanketed the high country and bolstered emaciated snowpacks this week was swirling with dirty trouble. Little specks of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah rode in on the potentially record-setting 61-hour storm and
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Another dry winter could push Lake Mead lower
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | 1 month ago
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A second bad winter in a row in the mountains that feed the Colorado River could shrink Lake Mead even faster than experts predicted just two months ago. Federal forecasters now say there's a 65 percent chance that the reservoir east of Las Vegas
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Spring storms boost snowpack in the high country
Glenwood Springs :: CO :: USA | 1 month ago
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Colorado As Garfield County commissioners set the process in motion Monday to consider a ban on fireworks sales in anticipation of another dry summer, large snowflakes outside were helping to alleviate the drought concern, at least for the time being.
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Northern Water to allow users 60 percent of system capacity
Denver :: CO :: USA | 1 month ago
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Font Resize Loveland Reporter-Herald Farmers and city dwellers who use water from the Colorado-Big Thompson water-diversion project will get 60 percent of that system's capacity during 2013. Board members of Northern Water, the agency that sells the
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