Water Supply Outlook for Alberta

April 2005

Table 3 - April 2005 snow course measurements in the Bow River Basin
April 2005 Data   Historical Information
Station Name SWE
(mm) 		% of Average Rank (lowest to
highest) 		Average
SWE
(mm) 		Minimum
SWE
(mm) 		Maximum
SWE
(mm) 		Years of Data
Bow River 188 90 27 208 97 437 69
Bow Summit 388 104 16 374 180 584 27
Chateau Lawn 192 71 14 271 131 480 64
Cuthead Lake 382 88 10 432 239 749 26
Highwood Summit 363 93 17 391 180 681 35
Larch Valley 417 93 11 451 277 632 25
Little Elbow 282 86 7 329 145 597 26
Lost Creek 404 77 5 523 212 825 21
Mirror Lake 279 93 31 301 160 561 66
Mist Creek 152 71 7 215 112 373 27
Mount Odlum pillow 361 79 4 456 215 771 17
Mud Lake 251 76 4 330 147 526 28
Pipestone Upper 198 91 32 217 109 434 69
Ptarmigan Hut 372 93 19 397 224 681 39
Sunshine Village pillow 494 89 10 555 381 795 25
Tent Ridge 269 76 4 352 155 605 25
Three Isle Lake 526 94 11 590 305 874 22

Note: SWE represents Snow Water Equivalent in mm

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