Chena River basin near Pleasant Valley and Munson Ridge
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District partners with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to measure winter snowfall levels and collect additional data from nine monitoring stations in the Chena River basin. The agencies analyze this information to estimate the volume of runoff when the snowpack melts in the mountains. Shown here is an aerial image of the basin near Pleasant Valley and Munson Ridge on March 30.