by John Orr
Runoff
Most of Colorado’s water users – municipal, agricultural, recreational and industrial – depend on annual snowmelt for their supplies. So it’s no wonder that many across Colorado watch the snowpack closely through the beginning of the water year and then anxiously anticipate the runoff. Will it come off too fast to be stored or will there be enough to fill? Will there be flooding? Will the holes and rapids along the whitewater sections be navigable?