From The Aspen Times (Scott Condon):
The overall snowpack for the Roaring Fork basin was 93 percent of average Monday, compared to 88 percent of average in the state as a whole, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, an agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
The Roaring Fork basin has benefited from storms in late March and early April. The conservation service measures snowpack at seven automated sites in the basin. The Independence site east of Aspen is 92 percent of average. Snowpacks were higher at sites in the Crystal Valley and lower in the Fryingpan Valley, both parts of the Roaring Fork basin. In the Crystal, Schofield Pass had a snowpack at 97 percent of average. McClure Pass was at 102 percent of average, and North Lost Trail, near Marble, was at 95 percent of average. In the Fryingpan Valley, Ivanhoe was at 94 percent; Kiln was at only 79 percent, and Nast was at 75 percent…
The average reservoir storage is above average in the state, so that will alleviate the low runoff.
From The Durango Herald (Dale Rodebaugh):
In the Animas/San Juan/ Dolores basin, the snowpack was 101 percent of its April 1 average and 116 percent compared with April 1 last year. In the Gunnison, Colorado, South Platte, North Platte and Yampa/White basins, snowpacks ranged from 73 to 94 percent of average April 1 and from 70 to 97 percent of last year’s snowpack on the same date. Statewide, the snowpack was 88 percent of average April 1 and 92 percent compared with last year…
The Arkansas and Rio Grande basins had the most snow compared with normal, the NRCS said. The Arkansas basin has 109 percent of its average April 1 snowpack and 113 percent of last year’s total. The corresponding averages for the Rio Grande basin were 115 and 119 percent…
Reservoir storage continues to be near average, however, with the state overall at 106 percent of the April 1 average and 103 percent of last year’s amount. The Animas/ San Juan/Dolores basin had the lowest reservoir storage, 87 percent of average and 81 percent of last year.
From The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (Dennis Webb):
Statewide, the April 1 snowpack was at 88 percent of average, unchanged from a month earlier. The Colorado River Basin is at only 76 percent of average, the agency said…
The conservation service estimates that there’s only a 10 percent chance of the state still reaching a near-average snowpack this season. “It would take a pretty dramatic storm series to really make even much of a dent in this. It can happen and it has in the past a few times but at this point it’s not looking promising,” [Colorado snow survey supervisor, Mike Gillespie] said…
Statewide reservoir storage is 106 percent of average. It’s 111 percent in the Colorado basin.
From CBS4Denver:
The snowpack was about 90 percent of average statewide as of Monday, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. That was up slightly from 88 percent on April 1. However, reservoir storage was at about 106 percent of average.
From The Mountain Mail (Sue Price):
While statewide snowpack levels remain at 88 percent of average, the Arkansas River Basin made up for past deficits by increasing to 109 percent of average. The April 1 survey by the Natural Resources Conservation Service shows “remarkably little change in percentages statewide,” Mike Gillespie, snow survey supervisor, said. “The greatest increase this month was in the Arkansas River basin – from 95 percent of average March 1 to 109 percent of average April 1,” he said. As far as Arkansas River flow projection, Gillespie said it “won’t be that much different” from last year. In 2009, river flow was slightly above average at 108 percent…
Porphyry Creek, near Monarch Pass, continued its steady build-up to 99 percent of average. Fremont Pass decreased from 80 percent to 74 percent of average while Brumley stayed high at 103 percent. “Next door, in the Rio Grande basin, they improved a bit also,” Gillespie said. The Upper Rio Grande, now reporting the highest percentage in the state, increased from 109 percent last month to 115 percent April 1.