OCR Text |
Show Water supply outlook Water supply outlook for eastern Utah has improved, according to the April NOAA National Weather Service report. Above normal March precipitation improved the water supply outlook. April 1 spring runofl forecasts are still well below normal but not so pessimistic as those issued March 1. The forecasts are based on normal subsequent precipitation patterns. March precipitation in the region ranged from 150 to iOO percent of normal. Seasonal (October through March amounts are to 134 percent of normal, nor-mal, up markedly from last month. April July inflow to Flaming Gorge Reservoir is forecast to be 720.000 acre-feet, acre-feet, 56 percent of normal, and the Green River at Green River, Utah forecast is for 1.600.000 acre-feet, 54 percent. Forecasts for the Duchesne River are 65 to 95 percent in the upper catchments decreasing to 50 percent in t the lower mainstream near Raaiec Forecasts for the Strawberry River r ( 35 percent; and the lower White c u Yampa drainages 50 to 60 percent J Seasonable streamflow (Oclc'x: J through March) for the Green Rivers jt Green River. Utah has been lU jf acre-feet, 53 percent of norri y Whiterocks near Whiterocks. li.r. J acre-feet. 104 percent and the Yc? f River at Steamboat Springs. 30. :i jf acre-feet. 75 percent. March 31 reservoir storage : Flaming Gorge Reservoir was J acre-feet, 84 percent of usable ap' t and 18 percent of normal for this as jf Moon Lake contains 24,760 acre-feet i percent of usable capacity and is a peeled to reach a peak content J 23.000 acre-feet near the end of W j Basin average snowpacte jf from 95 percent in the Uinta Moo22 jf, to 57 percent in the San K- drainage. y , . ff " M ; 4Vvv v i L it v . Wed.. Apr il 18th m.itkod the kick ofldjte tor the an nuj c Club Broom S.ile. More, left to riRht. ate: LarenceWJJ' j man of the Si;ht Conservation Committee, GUf jnj jj President of the Lion's Club, Dou Timothy, Lion me j Lyle Ander son, Dn ector ol the Lion's Club. These Lion are orn.iniinK their brooms tor a door to door sale .sSjt place last Wed. evening. "I here are still brooms avail." through a Lion member |