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NID reports good water storage in spite of dry weather

Despite one of the driest midwinter spells on record, Nevada Irrigation District water storage remains above the seasonal average, NID reported Friday.. “Although January and February precipitation amounts were far below average, the snowpack has remained intact, and there has been little change in the snowpack water content from a month ago,” said NID Operations Supervisor Sue Sindt. As of Friday, storage in NID’s 10 reservoirs stood at 211,100 acre-feet, which was 84 percent of capacity and 124 percent of average for the date. This follows a January that produced just 2.01 inches (16 percent of average) of precipitation at …

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