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The massive storm that hit Colorado’s Front Range over the weekend didn’t do much to aid the local snowpack. And that snowpack continues to lag behind the 30-year median.
According to the latest numbers from U.S. Department of Agriculture’s measurement sites at Vail, Copper Mountain and Fremont Pass, the snowpack, as measured in “snow water equivalent,” is 90% or less of the 30-year median. Copper Mountain is the closest measurement site to Vail Pass, and Fremont Pass is the closest measurement site to the headwaters of the Eagle River. Vail Mountain’s measurement is the lowest of the three, at 76% of the 30-year median.
Daily file photo is ready to try to squeeze more snow from those clouds, with some help from local water districts. and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority separate entities with separate jobs have together contributed up to $30,000 to the river district’s cloud seeding operations this season. The money will be paid out as needed for operations.
In all, the district and its partners from both the Western Slope and the Front Range will put about $300,000 into cloud seeding this season. That’s about $100,000 more than the district had to spend going into the winter.
The seeding budget used to be bigger. Vail Resorts before this season had long funded cloud seeding operations, to the tune of about $300,000 per year.
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It looks like efforts are paying off to improve water quality on Gore Creek.
The creek, along with a number of other mountain streams, in 2012 was placed on a state list of “impaired” waterways. Since then, the Eagle River Water & Sanitation District and the town of Vail have been working on ways to “Restore the Gore.” The effort has included projects from improving the town’s storm sewer system to educating property owners about ways they can help improve the stream.
One of the main ways to measure water quality is by tracking the populations of macroinvertebrates small bugs near the bottom of the food chain. Those bugs make it possible for other fish to flourish.
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