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I'm William Long I'm a hydrologic

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technician with the US Army Corps of

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Engineers , were in Forest Lake

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Minnesota , starting off our snow

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survey . We're traveling around the

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state this week taking snow

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measurements to figure out the amount

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of water contained in the snowpack .

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The data is used to support our

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partners at the National Weather

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Service and their efforts for spring

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flood predictions .