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Show Less-Than-Average ' Runoff Expected After Snow Check The final snow measurements for the 19r6 irrigation season were completed the past week by Howard Ivory and H. Dee Hansen, Han-sen, SCS technicians, and Thomas Walker, national park superintendent superinten-dent at Timpanogos cave. Considerable variation in snow cover exists over the watershed in the Provo River and Utah Lake area varying from the high of 21 percent above average to about two-thirds of average on Hobble Creek, Spanish Fork River and the I'ayson mountain. As elsewhere else-where in northern Utah, the soils on these drainages are very wet. This means that runoff will be greater than straight snowpack figures would indicate. However, a greater than average amount of the total year's runoff has occurred occur-red during the winter months leaving leav-ing less to come this summer. Anticipated An-ticipated streamflow from the Hobble Creek, Spanish Fork and Payson mountain areas is expected expect-ed to be About 65 to 70 percent of average. On the Spanish Fork, runoff this year should be about the same as last year, while on Hobble Creek it should be better than half as much again as occurred oc-curred in 1955. The heavier snowpack on the Provo River indicates that its runoff at Vivian Park will be only four percent less than average, and on the American Fork River the forecast is set at 14 percent less than average. The snowpack in the tSrawberry Valley is 80 percent of normal, but due to the very wet soils, inflow in-flow should be near average. The storage in Strawberry Reservoir still shows the effects of heavy runoff in 1952 with nearly 50 percent more than the 15-year average, (1938-52). The carryover carry-over storage in Deer Creek is 81,-600 81,-600 acre feet, as compared to the average of 70,600. Utah Lake storage stor-age is five percent above its average. |