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Show Colorado Runoff Predicted at Double Last Year Due to heavy winter snow in Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado, Colo-rado, the Colorado River at Moab is expected to run double what the streamflow amounted to last year. Bryant Brady, Monti-cello, Monti-cello, Soil Conservation Service official, stated Tuesday that following snow measurements around the area recently, the streamflow predictions predic-tions for the Colorado below Cisco were 3.19G,-000 3.19G,-000 acre feet of water during the April -July period. That estimate compares with the actual runoff figure from last year of 1,594.000 acre feel. The estimate predicts pre-dicts Colorado flow at 114 per cent of normal, last ear being an extremely low water yeai . Mr. Brady stated that nilior v ri:i slrpims are predicted at running much higher than normal flows during the three month period. Mill Creek, originating in the LaSal Mountains and flowing through Moab Valley, is estimated at 8.500 acre feet during the three month period. That is 173 per cent of normal. Mr. Brady stated. The San Juan River, measured at Bluff, is predicted pre-dicted at 1,185.000 acre feet, compared with only 276.000 acre feet last year. The figures there repient a jump of 133 per cent over tne aver-o'e. aver-o'e. Mr. Brady stated that snow measurements taken jointly by his agency and the U.S. Forest Service, Ser-vice, are used for basing the estimates of stream flow. Those estimates have proven, in the past, to be very accurate. |
