Scott River Watershed snow surveys complete

The Scott River watershed’s snowpack surveys are complete, and they look great: 167% for “snow water equivalent” and 178% for snow height. The US Forest Service press release from the Klamath National Forest today stated: “There were many snowfall events; and when snow did fall, it stayed in place and helped build up the local snowpack. The end result is an amount of snow that hasn’t been seen in years…April 1st is an important date for surveying snow because early April is historically when the snowpack is at its maximum; and this date has the greatest weight when the State forecasts annual water availability.”

Check out the USGS gage to view the rapidly rising flow in the Scott River. On April 6, the river was at 450 cubic feet per second (cfs). At 5 am today, it was at 600 cfs, and this evening it's at 743 cfs. The 81-year median for today is 947 cfs. If the warm weather continues, river flow will likely be at or above the mean within days.

Click here to read last week’s watershed report, brought to you by AgWA.