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Show cent of its long-time average flow. Key guaging on the Green River, principal tributary to the Colorado, Colora-do, reveals the year's flow to be only 74 normal. Despite this situation, irrigation storage reserves re-serves are still in satisf actory condition con-dition and the level of Bear Lake is considerably higher than it was a year ago. The Deer Creek Reservoir Res-ervoir has a fourth more water than a year ago. Access precipitation precipi-tation in northern Utah, during March and May, is credited with preserving the high levels of Bear Lake and the Deer Creek' Reservoir. SURVEY INDICATES DROUGHT IN UTAH The U. S. Geological Survey reports re-ports that the Utah stream runoff for September was only 47 percent of normal, practically the same as has been recorded for the past several sev-eral months. So far this year, the San Juan River. has only produced 51, per- |