The federal government has approved New York City's plan to spend the first $ 1.77 billion in aid for Hurricane Sandy recovery, with the money expected to start
flowing by early summer to homeowners, businesses and others in need.
Not exact matches
A 2016 report
by the Bureau of Reclamation predicts that the basin's snowpack is likely to decrease, stemming the
flow of runoff in spring and
early summer.
Streams fed
by snowmelt are reaching peak spring
flows weeks
earlier than in the past, and low
summer flows weeks before they used to.
Increases in winter and
early - spring stream
flow — followed
by decreases in late spring,
summer, and
early fall — have already been observed over the past 50 years.6 Peak spring runoff is occurring anywhere from a few days to 25 - 30 days
earlier throughout the region.7
But peak water
flow is typically a seasonal event driven
by snowpack melt, so the price - reducing effect of hydropower normally lasts only a few months each year, typically in the spring and
early summer.