Water News Roundup – February 3, 2010

3 Feb

The SpectrumSnowpack could result in flooding – Last week’s storm may be over, but officials say the excess snow it left in Southern Utah’s higher elevations may result in future flooding.

Salt Lake TribuneGains from Grand Canyon flooding short-lived – Maintaining sandbars crucial to wildlife in the Grand Canyon would require more frequent high water flows from Glen Canyon Dam that coincide with natural flooding of Colorado River tributaries, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist said Tuesday.