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Show Water supply outlook for eastern Utah Feb. 1 water supply forecasts remain well below normal, according to the National Weather Service and the ' Colorado River Forecast Center, Salt Lake City, reflecting the sparcity of precipitation over most of the area. Snowmelt runoff forecasts in the Strawberry and Duchesne Rivers are mostly 40 to 80 percent. The Flaming Gorge reservoir inflow forecast (April-July) (April-July) in 830,000 acre-feet, 64 percent of normal; and Green River near Green River, Utah, 1,190,000 acre-feet for April-July, 64 percent. The lower tributaries (Price River, Huntington Creek, Cottonwood Creek) are forecast to have 65 to 70 percent. The water year precipitation (October (Oc-tober through January) ranges from near normal in some stations of the western Uinta mountain range to near 50 percent in northeastern Utah. January precipitation was quite variable with amounts of zero to 30 percent in northeastern Utah (Fort Duchesne-0 percent) ranging to over 100 percent, (Moon Lake-121 percent, Moab-122 percent) in some stations. Seasonal streamflow (October through January) in the Green River at Green River, Utah has abeen 529,700 acre-feet, 104 percent of normal, and Whiterocks near Whiterocks, 109,000 acre-feet, 110 percent of normal. End of month reservoir storage in Flaming Gorge reservoir is 3,009,200 acre-feet, 80 percent of capacity and 142 percent of the normal for this date. Moon Lake contains 15,305 acre-feet, 43 percent of capacity, and is expected to reach a peak content of 25,000 acre-feet near July 1. Contents of the Colorado River Storage Project decreased 438,580 acre-feet acre-feet during the month. Usable content at the end of January was 26,859,980 acre-feet, which is 85 percent of capacity. I ? y - - |