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Senate committee advances bill to centralize airborne snowpack measurement at CWCB
Summary
The Agricultural Natural Resources Committee voted to advance House Bill 11‑15 to the appropriations committee. Sponsors and water stakeholders said the bill would move airborne snowpack measurement coordination into the Colorado Water Conservation Board to standardize data collection and improve water-supply forecasting.
Senate members on the Agricultural Natural Resources Committee voted to send House Bill 11‑15 to the Committee on Appropriations after testimony that the bill would centralize statewide snowpack measurement and water-supply forecasting at the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB).
The bill “focuses on 1 of the primary responsibilities of the board, which is supply planning,” sponsor Senator Dylan Roberts said, arguing that better statewide coordination of snowpack data would help water managers plan for shortages and unusual runoff.
The measure would formally create a statewide program to collect, manage and disseminate advanced snowpack and water-supply measurement data, proponents said. Lauren Riss, director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board in the Department of Natural Resources, told…
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