For Nevada's Snowpack and Water Supply, March Was 'Miracle-Ish'
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cOmmuNITy SPARKS Drive-in theater opens for the season in Sparks YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1910 Page 3 TribuneSERVING SPARKS SINCE 1910 Volume 110, Number 15 Wednesday, April 11, 2018 $1.00 SPORTS cOvER story For Nevada’s snowpack and water supply, March was ‘miracle-ish’ By Daniel Rothberg The Nevada Independent When it comes to water, Raiders rout Mother Nature is picking favorites in the North-South Galena twice; rivalry. move into third Nevada water manag- ers have closely watched Page 6 the snow for months to de- termine how much water would be available as run- off for drinking and farm- ing in a dry year for much of the lower Western states. For most of the season, the snowpack, from Tahoe to the Rockies, the source of almost all of Las Vegas’ wa- ter, was well below average. Since snowpack typically peaks around April, the dynamic set up March as a make-or-break month for Spanish Springs water supply. John Byrne/Tribune file photo splits pair with Water managers hoped After warnings and watches were issued, the Truckee River didn’t spill over and flood for a turnaround similar to a parts of Northern Nevada following plenty of rain late last week. Bishop Manogue “Miracle March” in 1991 that Page 6 brought so much late-sea- the Reno-Tahoe area, with coming years, potentially worse. The Tahoe basin son snow it ended a massive snowpacks that remain less water in Lake Mead, was at 29 percent of average California drought. This well below average. Still, which stores river water for snowpack. year, what Mother Nature 2018 could have been much Nevada, Arizona and Cal- By the end of March, INSIDE brought water managers de- worse, said Jeff Anderson, ifornia. Even as the three things had improved, espe- pended on what part of the who surveys Northern Ne- states negotiate a drought cially for the basins around Weather...............................2 state they were watching. vada snow for the U.S. De- plan, 2018 and another dry Tahoe. In fact, many of State Briefs..........................2 With cold snowstorms partment of Agriculture’s year following it could accel- these basins saw signifi- City Council News............4 through March, the water Natural Resources Conser- erate when the reservoir tips cant increases in snow- Opinion..............................8 picture around Tahoe and vation Services. into a shortage. pack in March — the Lake Classified Ads..................11 many parts of Northwest “We’re in a better position Tahoe, Truckee, Carson Legals................................12 Nevada improved consider- than we were a month ago,” Winter came in the and Walker basins saw in- ably, enough that some hy- he said. north (especially in creases of more than 39 to tahoe) drologists have been calling Southern Nevada and 45 percent of snowpack. it a “Miracle March.” From the Southwest were not as When Anderson talked “In the Sierra, 2018 joins Tahoe to the Great Basin in lucky. to the Nevada Independent 1991 as a true Miracle Follow us on Eastern Nevada, snowpack Not only did the region, in January, he described the March,” Anderson wrote in Twitter: started the month of March at the edge of the Colorado snowpack as “grim.” The his Water Supply Outlook @SparksTribune near historical lows and River Basin, remain abnor- situation did not change Report for April 1. “Both ended the month closer to mally dry but with only a quickly. The snowpack re- years were significantly be- the average. few exceptions, little snow mained “grim” through low normal on March 1, and That said, the results, even fell on much of the basin. March 1, with all of North- both years ended up far bet- in Northern Nevada, were That means less water in ern Nevada’s basin below ter by the end of the month… varied. There are still many the Colorado River, accord- 60 percent of the average. basins, especially outside of ing to forecasts, and in the Things in Tahoe were even > See WATER, Page 5 SPARKS Get the digital edition. SEE MORE sparkstrib.com Tribune News | Sports | Trending Now Your Community Newspaper Since 1910 ONLINE! 2 April 11, 2018 yOuR SEvEN-Day fOREcast WEDNESDAY THuRSDAY fRIDAY SaTuRDAY SuNDAY mONDAY Tuesday 62/34 47/29 56/35 69/44 69/39 61/32 66/33 Mainly cloudy and Windy with Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Times of clouds Cooler with sun Partly sunny breezy periods of sun and sun and clouds NEvaDa news bRIEfS Associated Press and Encore casino-resorts and Fash- ice: assault allegations $4.6 million to build new bus shelters ion Show Mall. from immigrant ‘patently and improve existing ones by adding Police in an email say officers have false’ solar lighting. lyon county petition determined “the item” is not a threat. LAS VEGAS — Immigration of- The Carson Area Metropoli- Would ban prostitution at The vehicle was on a road, not a ficials are denying the assault alle- tan Planning Organization will get brothels parking structure. gations leveled by an immigrant de- $447,480 to replace two buses in the RENO — A group of Lyon County The department did not immedi- tained in Las Vegas last week. Jump Around Carson fleet. activists has filed a petition to repeal ately release additional details. U.S. Immigration and Customs The tribe will receive $1.5 million to the local ordinance that allows for le- Enforcement in a statement says the build an operations and administra- gal prostitution at brothels in the ru- Vegas police say driVer allegations of physical abuse and tive facility. ral Nevada county just east of Carson killed by officers reached mistreatment alleged by Mexican Transportation Secretary Elaine for gun City. national Cecilia Gomez-Nolasco are Chao says the funds will help im- Kimberly Mull, an advocate for the LAS VEGAS — Police in Las Ve- “are patently false.” prove the safety and efficiency of bus group No Little Girl, filed the peti- gas say officers shot and killed a man ICE says it has “a strict zero-toler- services that millions of Americans tion Thursday with the Lyon County when he picked up a handgun he ini- ance policy” for abusive or inappro- depend on every day to get to work, clerk. tially dropped during a traffic stop in priate behavior by employees. school and other destinations. Mull told the Reno Gazette Journal a neighborhood several miles east of Gomez-Nolasco’s family on Thurs- the group believes that, “No little girl downtown. day told reporters an agent slammed Washoe county officials wants to grow up a prostitute.” Capt. Christopher Little said the her against a table, causing bruises confirm unr student has measles She wants the community to give shooting happened about 4:45 a.m. along her side, when she reached to brothel workers training and new Friday after officers on the way to a grab documents she wanted to read RENO — Washoe County health jobs if the brothels close. complaint stopped a car driving reck- before signing. officials have confirmed a case of -mea The group needs 3,355 signatures to lessly on a quiet street near Charles- Ricardo Avelar-Gomez said his sles at the University of Nevada, Reno. get the referendum on the November ton Boulevard and Sloan Lane. mother believed an appointment at The county health district con- ballot. Police did not immediately identify the Las Vegas office of U.S. Citizen- firmed last Wednesday that a student Four brothels owned by state leg- the male driver who they say got out ship and Immigration Services was at the university has the highly conta- islative candidate Dennis Hof are of the car with the gun, dropped it, meant for her to obtain her green gious viral disease. located within the county at Mound knelt to his knees, retrieved the gun card, but instead, she was detained. School officials say any students House 7 miles (11 kilometers) east of and began to raise it toward the offi- Gomez-Nolasco is at a detention who have not been immunized are Carson City. cers. center in Arizona. currently banned from the campus. Hof says the move would only shift Officials say two officers shot the District health officer Kevin Dick prostitution to the streets where it’s man, and he was pronounced dead at $6m in us bus grants for says they currently are attempting more dangerous. a hospital. Vegas, carson, pyramid lake to notify anyone who may have been tribe Two women in the vehicle were not exposed to the disease while the un- police reopen las Vegas injured, and were questioned by in- RENO — The U.S. Department of identified patient was infectious. strip after partial closure vestigators. Police did not say if they Transportation has awarded more He says the infected student vis- LAS VEGAS — Police say they faced criminal charges. than $6 million to transit operators ited the UNR Student Health Center have reopened a portion of the Las Police say the officers were wearing in Nevada to improve bus service for on Monday. Other places the student Vegas Strip that had been closed body cameras. The video was not im- passengers in Las Vegas, Carson City visited during the previous six days while officers investigated a situation mediately released. and at the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribal include the Squaw Valley ski resort involving a “suspicious vehicle with a The officers’ names were with- reservation. at Lake Tahoe, two urgent care clinics suspicious package.” held pending a media briefing about The DOT’s Federal Transit Admin- in Sparks and a wide variety of UNR The Las Vegas Metropolitan Po- the shooting in coming days.