Despite dry month, water supplies continue holding steady across state

Monday, March 14, 2016

Anderson Ranch Reservoir and others across the state are expected to benefit from an increase in rain expected this month.

Despite below-normal rain and snow last month, the state's water supply continues to hold steady with more precipitation expected in coming weeks, according to a report released last week by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

In its third water supply outlook report for the 2016 water year, the agency reported that Idaho's mountain snowpack ranges from 90 to 110 percent of normal for most of the state.

Data collected along the South Fork of the Boise River showed that watershed snowpack was ...

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I understand that the irrigation district was supposed to have addressed the leaking Valve on the dam at Long Tom reservoir last year. It looks as if the fix did not work and the irrigators are losing water to the desert at this time. Who is going to address this and stop the waste? Why has the irrigation district not asked for the proper permitting to increase the storage capacity at Long Tom and Mountain Home Reservoirs?

-- Posted by spodesek on Tue, Mar 15, 2016, at 12:36 PM

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