Teton River Distribution Project: May 2020

Teton River Distribution Project

The Teton River Distribution Project was created by 9th and 12th Judicial Districts Court for the 2017 irrigation season. Water users throughout the basin petitioned for the appointment of water commissioners in 2016. In its inaugural irrigation season, the project proved to be a success based on comments received from water users throughout the basin. Public meetings will be held in the October and November 2017 to address any and all issues that arise during the 2017 administrative effort.

This website is set up in a blog format. Chief Water Commissioner Peter Fritsch is authorized to post photos and comments on stream conditions, priority date cutoffs, etc. Water users may post questions to the blog that will be answered as quickly as possible. This website is an effort to create transparency and effective decision making on behalf of the Teton River Distribution Project.

Teton River Streamflow Quick Links
Upper Teton River USGS Realtime Gauge
Middle Teton River USGS Realtime Gauge
Lower Teton River USGS Realtime Gauge
Teton River Below Hwy 221 Realtime Gauge - Realtime
Teton River above Springhill Reach – Realtime

Deep Creek at Pishkun Bridge

Teton River at Buck Bridge

These last three gauges are updated manually by Aaron Fiaschetti on a weekly basis depending on his schedule.

Lower Spring Creek
Upper Spring Creek
Teton River below Hwy 287, above Deep Creek

Daily Average Streamflow Website

Friday, May 15, 2020

May 1st Hydrological Report & May 15 Snowpack Map

This snow accumulation season started with the record-breaking storms of late September and October. November was a relatively dry month, but since then, precipitation has been near average. April continued the trend with average precipitation.

The first part of the April brought well below-average temperatures, while the second half of the month brought sunshine and near-record high temperatures. At Badger Pass SNOTEL (6900 ft elevation), located above Swift Reservoir, temperatures reached nearly 70 degrees on April 29th.

The basin wide snowpack peaked above normal on April 19th, which is about a week later than normal, and it is currently melting fast. Streams and rivers are on the rise, including the North Fork of the Sun and Dearborn Rivers, which are flowing at near-record high stages for May 1st. Streamflow forecasts for the May 1st – July 31st period indicate near to slightly above average volumes are possible this spring and summer.

If you would like to read the whole state hydrological report for May 1st please click on this link.

May 15 Snowpack Map

Thursday, May 7, 2020

April 2020 ROD's

Zone 1 ROD

Zone 2 ROD

Zone 3 ROD

Zone 4 ROD

Zone 5 ROD

MTFWP ROD

Daily Average flows for Springhill and Lower Spring Creek gauges. These values are used to calculate FWP's 1985 instream flow reservations record of distribution on the Teton River and Spring Creek. As soon as I get the full monthly values for Spring Creek, I will update this post.

Daily Average Flows