Mills, Wyo. – Reclamation has scheduled a Buffalo Bill Reservoir Water Information Meeting in Powell, Wyoming.
The meeting will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, in the Fagerberg Building, Room 70, located at the Northwest College, 7th St, Powell, WY. A map of the campus can be found here, https://nwc.edu/about/campus/. Topics of discussion will be current water supply conditions, the 2024 snowmelt runoff forecast, and 2024 projected reservoir operations.
Buffalo Bill Reservoir near Cody, Wyoming, has a storage capacity of 646,565 acre-feet and provides irrigation water to approximately 95,000 acres. It is a source of municipal water supply to multiple communities, and its power generation facilities provide electricity to thousands of homes.
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