{"id":1310046,"date":"2019-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=977722"},"modified":"2019-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:00:00","slug":"roaring-fork-river-forecast-to-have-runoff-volume-110-to-148-of-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/roaring-fork-river-forecast-to-have-runoff-volume-110-to-148-of-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaring Fork River forecast to have runoff volume 110 to 148% of average"},"content":{"rendered":"
Snow engulfs the Independence ghost town on April 25. The snowpack in the Roaring Fork River headwaters is 134 percent of median so runoff is forecast to be high.<\/strong>
Scott Condon\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Roaring Fork River is among numerous streams in Colorado that are expected to experience above-average runoff this spring and summer, the Natural Resources Conservation Service said Tuesday in its May snowpack report.<\/p>\n

Streams in the Colorado River Basin, which includes the Roaring Fork, are forecast to have volumes 110 percent to 148 percent of average for May through July, the report said.<\/p>\n

The snowpack in various locations in the Roaring Fork Basin remains well above average. The snow telemetry site in the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River east of Aspen showed a snowpack at 134 percent of median on May 1. Sites in the upper Fryingpan Valley were more than 160 percent of median. In the Crystal River Valley, Schofield Pass was at 154 percent of median while McClure Pass was at 139 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the major river basins reached maximum snowpack levels for 2019 during the first half of April, but the latest storm (in late April) was instrumental in delaying the increasingly rapid snow melt,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

How the spring unfolds will determine if flooding is an issue. Hot weather for a sustained time could create problems, the report indicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccelerated melt of the above-normal snowpack could lead to a greater potential for runoff to overwhelm the state\u2019s streams and overtop their banks, while moderate snowmelt will be more likely to provide a consistent water supply later into the summer,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The snowpack for the Roaring Fork basin overall was at 137 percent of median May 1, the report said. Last year at this time, it was just 67 percent of median.<\/p>\n

The statewide snowpack was 123 percent on May 1.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snow engulfs the Independence ghost town on April 25. The snowpack in the Roaring Fork River headwaters is 134 percent of median so runoff is forecast to be high.Scott Condon\/The Aspen Times The Roaring Fork River is among numerous streams in Colorado that are expected to experience above-average runoff this spring and summer, the Natural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1310046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 00:37:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}