It’s hard to wrap your head around the scale of how much water flowed through the Valley this week. New numbers from Salt River Project (SRP) put that historic runoff into perspective.
Flows on the Salt and Verde rivers were among the highest SRP has seen in decades as it released water downstream to manage its reservoirs.
But the bigger story is what SRP held on to — roughly 120 billion gallons, enough to fill about 182,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Stephen Flora, a senior hydrologist for Salt River Project, said such inflows in such a short period were ‘huge.’…