September 26, 2008--Basin gets a bonanza from imported water (Pueblo Chieftain)
Water imports from the Colorado River basin were about 35 percent above average this year, supplementing an otherwise dry year in the Arkansas River basin. The flows, generated by a big winter snowpack, sustained irrigated farming in the valley and helped fill municipal water reserves. Up until early August, the Arkansas Valley was in the grips of a drought some said was more severe than 2002. Even with more rain since then - even some minor flooding - rainfall totals are about 80 percent of average.
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