North Idaho’s solid snowpack raises water supply outlook

KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho — On March 15, the Coeur d’Alene-St. Joe and Pend Oreille-Kootenai basins had below normal snowpack.

Cool, wet weather in the last half of March brought significant amounts of snow to the Panhandle basins at nearly all elevations between March 15 and March 25. This brought the basins to near to above normal snowpack conditions, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s April 1 report.

April 1 snowpack was 90 to 100% of normal…

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