… Aspen Snowmass has become the first resort in Colorado to adopt Snow Secure, a Finnish snow storage system designed to preserve snow through the summer months. …Colorado ski areas typically use about 3,582 acre-feet of water, or 1.2 billion gallons, of water in snowmaking, according to Colorado Division of Water Resources director Jason Ullmann, who cited stats based on data collected from 2001 to 2020. Aspen’s average use over that same period is about 300 acre-feet per year. Shoring up early season water supplies by investing in snow storage could help keep ski resorts out of the intensifying battles for water as climate change diminishes available supply. 

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