By AZ Business Magazine
The 2016 winter runoff season, which over-promised and under delivered, proved again that the Salt River Project water-storage system can handle just about anything.
SRP and central Arizona depend on wet winters and plentiful precipitation on the mountainous regions north and east of the Valley to replenish the reservoirs on the Salt and Verde rivers. El Nino 2016, which started out with such promise but faded into just another “first” in SRP’s 118 years of record-keeping annals, wound up producing 338,181 acre-feet – an unprecedented sixth consecutive year of below-median runoff into the two rivers.
