The first official numbers this season from the Nevada Irrigation District indicate precipitation is now above normal in this area. The District says, as of January 7th, and before the most recent systems, precipitation was 104-percent of average. Meanwhile, NID Operations Manager Chip Close says storage at Bowman Reservoir was still around 8-thousand acre feet below normal…
There was virtually no snowpack a year ago. Close says an even more detailed water picture should be known after NID conducts its first snow survey on February first…
The storage at Bowman was measured last week at around 151-thousand acre feet, after bottoming out at 132-thousand in late October.
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