Reservoir levels throughout the state have recovered to pre-drought levels. “It’s taken us five years to recover from the drought of 2002, but we’ve got a long way to go before we’re back in the good old days of the early 1990s,” Mike Gillespie of the Natural Resources Conservation Service told the Colorado Water Congress last week. Gillespie recapped the water year at the group’s summer convention, replaying a winter that covered the Eastern Plains with snows from several blizzards, while leaving the mountains relatively dry. Still, there has been enough moisture to fill reservoirs to 99 percent of the 30-year state average.

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