Farmers Union Operations
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Friday, May 20, 2022
There is 120.1 cfs being diverted in to the canal today, (20.1 river and 100.0 Reservoir native). Chuck will begin moving water to the north today, for a total of five days. Have a great weekend!
Thursday, May 19, 2022
We have 120.6 cfs available river water and 150.0 cfs in Reservoir native storage releases, for a total diversion of 270.6 cfs today. We will continue making deliveries to the Eubank, Hiline and South Laterals today, and move to the north end of the system on Friday, May 20th.
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Rob
Friday, May 6, 2022
Rob
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Greetings all,
The canal came into priority for 140.2 cfs yesterday. We are going to flush the Central Canal today and work north over the next three days.
Rob
Friday, April 22, 2022
They landed on Priority 361-A today, so we are good for 140.2 cfs. If the wind comes up as bad as it is forecasted, we will have plenty of escape routes to take it - east - if need be. Inflow to the reservoir almost hit 400.0 cfs overnight.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
We fell out of priority and lost our river water on April 24th. Following is an update from the CODOS:
CODOS UPDATE APRIL 25, 2022: MORE DUST (#7) WITH PRECIP, WARM UP THRU THE WEEK:
GREETINGS FROM SILVERTON,
The high winds just don’t let up. Dust was prevalent throughout Colorado and the Southwest states last week and on Friday (April 22) more dust hit the Colorado snowpack (with 100mph winds at Red Mt), falling on existing surface dust before being covered by modest snowfall in the San Juan’s and a bit more towards Central and Northern Colorado. This marks dust event #7 in our record keeping. There are now at least three combined dust layers re-emerging in Southern Colorado and elsewhere depending on snowfall amounts over the weekend. In one day measured albedo from radiation sensors at Swamp Angel dropped from 93% to 76%. The result will be streamflow on the rebound. Given the weather forecast and heavy dust at/near surface we are looking at early full snow ablation again this year. Once plants and soils are exposed, the warm/dry/windy conditions will rob water and dry out the landscape.