4-11-2019
NORTH CASCADES HIGHWAY, Wash. — Low snowpack in the Cascades could mean a dangerously low water supply this summer.
Water supply specialist Scott Pattee told the Skagit Valley Herald that despite recent snowstorms, there’s actually less snow in the Cascades and less water in reservoirs than usual.
Streamflows in the North Puget Sound region are forecasted to be about 80% of normal from April to September when we rely on snowmelt to supply streams with water needed for drinking, farm irrigation and fish habitat.
Pattee says there’s a chance streamflow and water supply could run low this summer for the first time since the snowpack drought of 2015.