Salt River Project this weekend will stop releasing excess water from the two reservoirs on the Verde River with snowmelt runoff conditions diminishing on the Verde and the prospect of additional significant storms lessening considerably. SRP’s six reservoirs on the Salt and Verde rivers have received about 900,000 acre-feet of runoff from snowmelt and precipitation on the 13,000-square-mile watershed since the start of the 2019 runoff season on Jan. 1, said Charlie Ester, ma