Sierra Snowpack Significantly Increases Nevada’s Water Supply | Local News [Video]

Our latest storm brought a lot of snow to our mountains. And of course, more snow leads to more water.

The amount of snowpack we get every winter determines how much water we get as all that snow melts in the spring.

Experts are telling us that this year is going to be a great year for water.

“It’s been incredible,” said Andy Gebhardt, Director of Distribution Maintenance and Generation for Truckee Meadows Water Authority. “We’re going to have good flows in the river at least for the next two, three years.”

“And the great news today is that our snowpack in the Sierra, so the Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Carson, and Walker Basin, they’re all above normal for this time of year for the first time this winter,” added Jeff Anderson, Hydrologist for Natural Resources Conservation Service of Nevada.

Anderson says last weekend’s snowstorm has added eight inches of water …