The Bureau of Reclamation will quadruple the amount of water that's released from Navajo Reservoir into the San Juan River this week thanks to heavy snow this winter in Colorado. The release, which will start today, will compensate for the spring melting of the Colorado snowpack to the north, which had reached 160 percent of the 30-year average Sunday. When that snow melts, it will become 1.3 million acre-feet of water flowing into Navajo Reservoir. The release will increase per day by about 1,000 cubic-feet per second to reach 3,000 cubic-feet per second by Wednesday. The bureau now releases 750 cubic-feet per second from Navajo Reservoir.

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