Show WEBER AREA LACKS MOISTURE DESPITE RECENT RAIN SAYS SORENSEN total moisture on the weber river watershed despite the precipitation of more than an inch of moisture on wednesday and thursday is i 1 V tinly n ly 70 pe percent ceaf 01 0 afo n orinal P H sorensen weber river water commissioner reports echo reservoir now contains 19 acre feet of water and it is not believed likely that it will fil to its acre foot capacity unless precipitation on the watershed for april and may Is above normal and temperature conditions are right for maximum runolf mr sorensen sal said id As east canyon reservoir now contains acre feet of its 28 acre foot capacity it is likely to f fill ill precipitation on the watershed during september october november ber and december 1939 was far below normal and at the end of 1939 the watershed had a greatly great lr moisture deficiency than at any corresponding date since 1934 jan barys precipitation was slightly below normal februarys was slightly above and marahs rainfall was only about 70 per cent of normal before the wednesday and thursday storms the slopes at the south and the west were bare to about foot elevation last year at this time the water content of echo reservoir was 24 acre feet however the contenta content conten tl of east canyon reservoir was only ocre feet as compared with the present |