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Show . -- ....... ' v-.. - - . ' ' ... ... . 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 i f i j 1 1 j 1 1 1 j j (nil i i 1 1 iiQXlTTTTT . - - ." r ... pebris floating in the swollen Colorado River this fek stacked up against the middle pier of the Bridge causing quite a massive jam. Water in the river is at the highest point for many years and crest is still some weeks away. V. B. Winn of Canyonlands Bv N'ignt reported this week that the high water is slowing his trip upriver by about 15-20 minutes min-utes each night. In many places the river has left its banks and the boat dock upriver from the site of the old highway bridge is presently under water. Colo. River Running High! More Wafer Expected According to a recently recent-ly released outlook by the Soil Conservation Service and I'tah State Department of Natural Resources, water outlook out-look for the period of May through July is far above average for this area of the state. Officials report that snow cover as of May 1, varies from 1.5 times average on the San Rafael to almost 5 times average aver-age on the Blue Mountains Moun-tains near Monticello. Cool weather in April, rhe report states, reduced re-duced snow melt. Pre-cip.w.ion Pre-cip.w.ion during April lui.iu from about half average at Widtsoe Summit Sum-mit to almost twice average ave-rage at LaSal Mountain upper near Moab. Streamflow forecasts range from 125 per cent of the May-July average on Huntington Creek to 184 per cent on Mill Creek near Moab. The delay in snow melt during April has resulted in increases in-creases to most forecasts fore-casts in the area. In the upper Colorado River basin, in addition to the Mill Creek forecast, fore-cast, the Colorado River near Cisco is estimated at 152 per cent of average aver-age with a forecast flow of 4255 thousand ac. ft. of water for the April through July period. Last year there were 1,594 thousand acre ft. for the same period and average is 2,802 ac. ft. Precipitation recorded for the LaSal Mountain snowcourse at elevation 9,400 feet for the month of April was 4.15 inches, t r, wt ' This is nearly double the 2.30 inches usually recorded for this same month. Precipitation since October 1, to date on that course has been 28.34 inches or 168 per cent of the average of 16.86 inches. |