![]() ![]() But they provide just a snapshot of conditions at one location. Important data points that water managers and streamflow forecasters use for measuring snowpack - and the water contained in that snowpack, known as snow-water equivalent (SWE) - are snow-telemetry (SNOTEL) sites, a network of remote sensing stations throughout Colorado’s mountainous watersheds that collect weather and snowpack information. The project would not fund the flights themselves but would be used to develop an expanded, collaborative, well-funded plan to identify which basins to fly each year. The Colorado, South Platte, Metro, Gunnison and Arkansas basin roundtables have each committed $5,000 toward the project. ![]() Denver Water, which provides water to 1.4 million people along the Front Range, is the ASO expansion project manager, while Northern Water is the fiscal agent.
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