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Show Commissioner Issues Comparative Report on Current Water Outlook and a three months precipitation precipita-tion of 5.06. In December 1951 (the record re-cord year for precipitation) which resulted in floods the following spring (1952), 6.04 inches of snow fell in December Decem-ber and precipitation for the months of Oct., Nov. and Dec. was 9.88 inches. I A summary of the water supply conditions for the Strawberry Water Project, submitted sub-mitted by J. Wayne Francis, water commissioner, indicates that the inflow in the reservoir reser-voir during the past month; also the Oct. 1 to Jan. 1 inflow in-flow into the reservoir and the total amount now stored in the reservoir, is near the average for a ten-year period. The amount stored is also considerably consider-ably above that of the previous pre-vious two years or any other years, except the flood years of 1952 and 1953. The December 1957 inflow was 3,040 acre feet; Oct. 1 to Jan. 1 inflow, 8,347 and the total inflow as of Jan. 1, was 150,560 acre feet. The maximum year of record re-cord in 1952 totaled 241,000 acre feet stored and the minimum mini-mum came in 1936, when the total stored in the reservoir was 17,310 acre feet. The snow cover Jan. 1, at East Portal was 24.9 inches with water content of 5.44 and' on the Strawberry Divide the snow measured 38 inches with water content of 9.47. The ten-year average on these snow courses is 21.6 inches of snow on East Portal this time of year with 4.91 water content and on Strawberry Straw-berry Divide, 36 inches of snow with 9:26 water content. At East Portal in 1952, there were 37.9 inches of snow on Jan. 1, with water content of 11.27 and at Strawberry Divide, Di-vide, 57.6 inches of snow with 16.93 water content. At the Strawberry-Daniels Summit snow course on Jan. 1, 33 inches of snow were measured with 7.50 water content con-tent which was considerably more than any year except 1952 and also 1949. The ten-year average at this snow course is 25 inches of snow with 5.97 water content Approximate precipitation in the valley as of Jan. 1 was 1.81 inches of snow during December Decem-ber and a precipitation of 5.07 for the three months Oct. 1 to Jan. 1. The ten-year average for the valley is 2.23 inches in Dec. |