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Colorado River Basin reservoirs still face grim outlook despite healthy snowpack
The healthy snowpack whitening Colorado’s mountain peaks has given water officials some breathing room to manage the Colorado River Basin’s ongoing drought. The challenge will be not to squander it....
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Colorado’s snowpack is peaking higher than usual — which brings spring...
Colorado’s snow season is nearing its typical peak with above-average snowpack, and water officials are beginning to worry about flooding and gauging potential reservoir releases. But in some places,...
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What Colorado water officials think of the federal government’s proposed...
A bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water line of Lake Mead near water intakes on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam June 26, 2022. The Biden administration on Tuesday released an...
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A wet year promises a boost to both Colorado River Basin reservoirs and...
The network of pipes and massive bathtubs that is the Colorado River Basin’s reservoir storage system is going to see some recovery this year thanks to higher-than-average snowpack. That’s a promising...
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Side-by-side photos show how much Blue Mesa Reservoir’s water levels have...
Blue Mesa Reservoir, photographed from the bridge spanning Colorado Hwy 149, on Sept. 6, 2021, and June 6, 2023. (William Woody, Special to The Colorado Sun) BLUE MESA RESERVOIR — The images you are...
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Why is Lake Powell so important to the Colorado River? Here’s what you need...
Coloradans might know of Lake Powell from sun-filled days recreating in its waters, its expansive, rust-colored canyon walls … or the onslaught of news coverage focused on its water levels. So why is...
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Colorado River Basin states stake out positions on the future of Mead, Powell...
Colorado River Basin states don’t agree on very much when it comes to the future operations of the basin’s largest water savings banks. One thing they do agree on: The current rules aren’t working....
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After a wet year, can Colorado hope for a repeat? Not quite, experts say.
As March rolled into April, Ken Beck was keeping his eye on the snowdrifts piled on slopes around Vallecito Reservoir in Colorado’s southwestern mountains. Snow reports showed there was about 300,000...
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Federal government’s short-term Colorado River stabilization plan paints a...
Colorado scientist Brad Udall spent hours digging — with frustration — through the federal government’s 700-page proposal for managing key dams and reservoirs in the Colorado River Basin over the next...
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Colorado River crisis: How did the nation’s two largest reservoirs nearly go...
Story first appeared in: During the drought-choked summer of 2021, Colorado’s largest reservoir, Blue Mesa, was low, its shoreline exposed and dusty like a dirty white collar. The massive inflows from...
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2024 forecasts show less water will flow into Lake Powell. Don’t panic,...
Federal forecasts for the Colorado River’s water supply — the water source for 40 million people — predict a substantial drop as the snow season limps into the new year. Water flowing into Lake Powell...
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