Modeling released late last week showed the river system on track to deliver a scant 2.3 million acre-feet to Lake Powell, one of the river system’s largest reservoirs. That’s 36% of the median of 6.4 million acre-feet recorded between 1991 and 2020. If the forecast comes true, it would be the fifth-lowest inflow to Lake Powell since the reservoir’s establishment in 1963, according to the National Weather Service’s Colorado Basin River Forecast Center.

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Colorado River may deliver just a third of normal water supplies this spring, projections show

Extended warm weather across the Colorado River basin could reduce the amount of water delivered during spring runoff to a third of normal, the National Weather Service says.

The Denver Post (www.denverpost.com)