Water Supply Outlook for Alberta

April 2008

Table 3 - April 2008 Snow course measurements in the Bow River Basin
April 2008 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 173 83 25 208 97 437 72
Bow Summit 335 89 11 374 180 584 30
Chateau Lawn 244 90 28 271 131 480 67
Cuthead Lake 335 77 7 434 239 749 29
Highwood Summit 321 83 8 388 180 681 38
Katherine Lake 445 100 11 447 246 663 21
Larch Valley 397 88 10 452 277 632 28
Little Elbow 300 92 12 327 145 597 29
Lost Creek 454 88 12 516 212 825 24
Mirror Lake 254 84 24 301 160 561 69
Mount Odlum 408 88 7 462 221 699 20
Mud Lake 329 100 17 329 147 526 31
Pipestone Upper 199 91 34 208 109 434 72
Ptarmigan Hut 325 82 9 396 224 681 42
Sunshine Village 541 91 20 596 277 996 41
Tent Ridge 280 79 7 353 155 605 28
Three Isle Lake 601 101 14 593 305 874 25

Note: SWE represents Snow Water Equivalent in mm

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