snowpack

Lauren Oliver, civil engineer in the district’s Hydraulics and Hydrology Section, begins to take measurements at one of the telemetry sites in the Chena River basin April 30. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District partners with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to measure winter snowfall levels and collect additional data from nine monitoring stations in the Chena River basin. The agencies analyze this information to estimate the volume of runoff when the snowpack melts in the mountains.

Engineers measure snowpack to predict flooding

USACE monitors flood risk from breakup conditions in Chena River basin after record snow/rain events last winter.

‘It was a long night’: Delta’s First-responders, Volunteers Hustle to Help Flooding Victims

Tim Ellis

Warm weather has triggered rapid melting of last winter’s above-average snowfall, and that’s caused some serious flooding in communities around the…

Energy & Environment

Sparse Snowfall in Eastern Interior Leaves Little Ground Insulation, Dry Wildfire Fuel

Tim Ellis

Spring officially begins in a week, though warm weather and lack of snowfall in the eastern Interior makes it seem like the equinox is already here. But…