Idaho’s agriculture industry is quite concerned with the water supply levels of the state.  The last few years have been somewhat dry, and water supplies have gotten lower each year. www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/ The USDA-NRCS SNOTEL Data Network reports information such as water equivalent reports and precipitation data.

     For those of you in the Magic Valley who are dependent on the Snake River for irrigation water, the two basins you are concerned with are the Henry’s Fork/Teton Basins and the Snake Basin Above Palisades.

     Those of you on the Salmon Tract need to be concerned with the Salmon Falls Basin, and the Big and Little Wood Basins service anyone dependent on the Big and Little Wood Rivers’ water. 

     The Upper Snake River Basin reservoir storage information can be monitored at www.usbr.gov/pn/hydromet/burtea.cfm. This site is kept current by the US Bureau of Reclamation.