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Beginning Monday, Xcel Energy crews will relocate a natural gas line on First Street between Ouray Avenue and Grand Avenue, according to a news release.
Crews will use trenching and drilling methods to move the line, and will drill beneath ground to reduce traffic impacts. Crews will also stage equipment along First Street between Gunnison Avenue and Belford Avenue.
Thatâs not all of the work Xcel is doing, though.
âIn the coming weeks, additional natural gas relocation work will take place along First Street, between Ouray and Gunnison avenues and between Grand and Rood avenue,â the release said.
For more information, visit xcelenergy.com/NaturalGasProjects or call the construction hotline at 970-423-3411.
Coloradoâs snowpack this winter continues to lag behind normal â much less the above-normal amount needed for the state to escape from a continuing drought â but it has improved thanks to recent storms, and more moisture is on the way.
Snowpack in the state as of Wednesday was at 85% of median, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Services. Thatâs up from 74% just under a month ago, and reflects a wetter recent weather pattern that has dropped multiple feet of powder on some Colorado ski areas.
Snowpack levels have shown similar increases in the Upper Colorado River and Gunnison River drainages, which now sit at 82% and 79% of median, respectively. The Gunnison drainage currently is the driest major basin in the state, with the Upper Rio Grande Basin having the highest amount of snowpack at 103% of median.