Water Supply Outlook for Alberta

April 2007

Table 3 - April 2007 Snow course measurements in the Bow River Basin
April 2007 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 263 126 58 209 97 437 71
Bow Summit 480 128 27 376 180 584 29
Chateau Lawn 376 138 60 272 131 480 66
Cuthead Lake 702 161 27 437 239 749 28
Highwood Summit 401 103 24 390 180 681 37
Katherine Lake n/a n/a n/a 419 246 663 19
Larch Valley 858 185 27 464 277 858 27
Little Elbow 336 102 18 328 145 597 28
Lost Creek 507 98 14 519 212 825 23
Mirror Lake 450 149 64 302 160 561 68
Mist Creek 197 93 14 213 112 373 29
Mount Odlum 467 100 11 465 221 699 19
Mud Lake 379 115 21 330 147 526 30
Pipestone Upper 294 135 63 218 109 434 71
Ptarmigan Hut 505 127 36 398 224 681 41
Sunshine Village 660 110 29 598 277 996 40
Tent Ridge 456 128 24 355 155 605 27
Three Isle Lake 624 105 15 593 305 874 24

Note: SWE represents Snow Water Equivalent in mm

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