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Soil-moisture data points to moderate levels

Spring runoff influenced by last fall’s turf conditions

Looking across the Roaring Fork Basin, soil moisture on Nov. 2, 2022, measured 70% of average for the higher elevations sites and 100% of average at lower elevations. That is wetter than in November 2020, when soil moisture was mostly between 50% and 70% of average.


Data dashboard: Streams flowing well above average

Snowpack below high alpine nearly gone

• The USGS sensor below Maroon Creek recorded the Fork running at 1,160 cfs on May 29, or 186.2% of average. That’s up from 816 cfs on May 21. • The monitoring station at Independence Pass has been recording a snow-water equivalent of zero inches since May 28. • Lake Powell’s elevation on May 29 was 33 feet above the target elevation of 3,525.

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ASPEN/PITKIN COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY DATA SERIES

APCHA’s RO category supports a growing number of million-dollar homes 

Rules and pricing can vary by neighborhood in second-largest subset of local ownership affordable housing.

The concept of RO — housing locals who don’t otherwise fit into the numbered categories and accommodating properties that also couldn’t easily be categorized — is an important one in one of the country’s most robust affordable-housing programs. But, is it working?

Inventory shows who lives in APCHA deed-restricted ownership housing

1,652 units serve a wide swath of the community

The APCHA ownership inventory can be viewed in two market segments. One, with fewer restrictions on owner qualifications and valuations, is managed under the “resident occupied” (RO) category. The second, larger segment, with price caps determined via a set of categories based on buyers’ income and assets, saw median pricing in 2021 that was less than half of the median RO sale price.

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