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Excerpt from Water Supply Outlook for Nevada and Federal-State-Private Cooperative Snow Surveys: March 1982
Snow measurements taken at the end of February indicate there will be a good water supply this summer. Snow water contents in the tahoe-truckee Basins are 114 percent of average, the Carson River Basin is 116 percent of average and the Walker Basin is 130 percent of average, as determined from the snow course measurements. The storm which occurred over the President's Holiday weekend (february 14-16) contributed most of the month's increase in snowpack water content. This tropical Storm produced snowpack increases at high elevations, while rain at low elevations con tributed to Significant melt. Mt. Rose snow course increased from inches of water content to and Squaw Valley #2 increased from inches of water content to while Independence Creek snow course decreased from inches of water content to and Little Valley snow course went from inches to inches. Both Little Valley and Independence Creek water contents normally increase during the month of February, with average additions of to 5 inches of water content.
Snowpack water contents are still well above last year's measurements.
They are not as much above average as February 1 measurements were, how ever due to the mid month storm which reduced low elevation water contents. Average snow water content in the Carson River Basin is 181 percent of last year, in the tahoe-truckee Basin, 223 percent, and 244 percent in the Walker River Basin.
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