Comment on Pueblo Reservoir faced releasing millions of gallons of water in April, but its fast-acting users averted a major spill by Coyote Gulch

says Garrett Markus, water resources engineer for the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, which manages water imported to southeastern Colorado from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. In the water world, storage lags precipitation for one year, so the robust water levels in the Fry-Ark system this year derived almost entirely from 2017’s wet winter. As with most reservoirs, users store different amounts of water and hold different dated storage rights that dictate whose water would go first if a spill became necessary.