Agriculture conditions expected to improve in 2005

Northern Colorado is still experiencing drought conditions, snow pack and rainfall levels improved enough in 2003 and 2004 to begin rebuilding depleted water levels.
“In the Colorado-Big Thompson project we are roughly about 90,000 acre feet below normal over at Granby,´ said Brian Werner, spokesperson for the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. The water district operates and maintains the Colorado-Big Thompson project, which delivers water to Northern Colorado. Lake Granby is the system’s largest reservoir.
“On Dec. 1, our average in the reservoir is 300,000 acre feet and this year it is 210,000 acre feet, or 70 percent…