December 16, 2007--Recent storms increase snowpack sharply (Denver Post)
The South Platte River Basin, a major water supplier for the Front Range, went from 68 percent of the 30-year average on Dec. 2 to 94 percent Sunday morning. The Upper Colorado, a source for downstream states, went from 79 percent to 104 percent of the 30-year average. In southwestern Colorado, where the snowpack had started to improve in early December, the San Miguel-Dolores-San Juan-Animas river basins went from 94 percent to 149 percent. Snows the past two weeks have deepened Colorado's all-important snowpack considerably.
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