October runoff lifts SRP water storage 17%

Water storage in the Salt River Project system is up 17% heading into winter after Arizona recorded one of its 10 wettest Octobers on record. SRP senior hydrologist Stephen Flora says flows on the Salt and Verde rivers were among the highest since 1993. But the runoff exceeded the system’s capacity to capture it all, a challenge the proposed Bartlett Dam expansion aims to address.

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