The Hydrologic Impacts From the Diversion of Winter Flows of ...

snowpack for fall and spring conditions. Smart and Fleming's
1985 estimate of 10 percent CU for the Santa Fe Ski Area may
be a reasonable estimate of the CU at Ski Rio. The ski areas
are situated on like soils and topography with
similiar
slope orientation.
Wright Water Engineers and Leaf (1986, p. 9)
investigated the CU of water used to make artificial snow
for Colorado Ski Country USA. The study assembled data from
six different ski resorts throughout Colorado and
modeled
the watershed loss associated with the snowmaking.
The
average CU from the six resorts for
was 22 percent, 6 percent initial
an average water ye~r
loss and 16 percent
watershed loss.
Ski Rio is located halfway between
Santa Fe Ski Area
and the resorts studied in Colorado. The
conditions and
settings from both studies are similiar and so an
average
between the two CU estimates has been used in this study.
The estimate for CU of Cordova creek water at ski Rio is 16
percent of the total diversion.
Figure 2.
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