Recent storm systems brought significant rainfall and runoff across central Arizona, which generated substantial inflows into the Salt and Verde River reservoir system and helped replenish water supplies following several years of dry conditions.
At the peak of the event, inflows into the Verde River reached an estimated 94,000 cubic feet per second, while combined inflows into Roosevelt Lake peaked at approximately 145,000 cubic feet per second. That’s about 703,000 gallons of water per second and 1 million gallons of water per second, respectively.
In total, SRP was able to store about 370,000 acre-feet of water or 120 billion gallons of water in SRP’s reservoir system from the storms, increasing the storage from 53% full on Nov. 1 to 70% full on Nov. 6…