Rainstorms drenched Arizona in recent weeks, soaking the state’s cities, mountains, streams and rivers. Anybody who got caught in the rare fall storm could tell you it was a wildly unusual amount of water. Now, we have the numbers to back it up.
The Salt River Project, which operates dams in the mountains east of Phoenix, measured unprecedented inflows into its reservoir system. October and November inflows are the highest on record on the Salt and Verde watershed, the utility said, about eight times greater than average.
The surge of rain brought SRP’s reservoir system from 53% full to 70% full in less than a week…