Grand Valley's Stage I Drought Status Lifted http://t.co/uHJqOCjCmB
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Meanwhile the current drought in the Colorado River Basin is one of the worst in 1,200 years. Here’s a report from Matt Jenkins writing for the High Country News. Here’s an excerpt:
The current drought began in 2000, and is now entering its 14th year. When matched up against every other 14-year period since 762 A.D., it falls in the driest 2 percent of all those periods.
That means the current 14-year period is, as federal Bureau of Reclamation head Michael Connor told a Senate committee this summer, “one of the lowest in the Basin in over 1,200 years.”
That’s true, says Jeff Lukas, with the Western Water Assessment at the University of Colorado, adding that the tree rings show a half-dozen decade-or-longer droughts that were likely more severe than the current one.