Show Water Wafer Forecast Sees Shortage In Green River The surface of Flaming Gorge Reservoir will be much low low- lower er this summer than it was nl at atthe the peak mark of if water runoff forecasts hold true ACCORDING to a forecast issued this month by the Bureau of Reclamation run run- runoff runoff off of 79 per cent of the 15 year normal will occur assum- assum assuming assuming ing normal precipitation duro dur- during ing February through July The July lake level Is fore fore- forecast forecast cast for feet almost 20 feet below last years year's ears level Level on February 1 was feet EXPECTED maximum im im- im impoundment this year is million mil mil- million lion cubic feet of water or 01 i roughly 1 per cent of capacity Present volume at Flaming Gorge is about million feet or 5 per cent of capacity If the below normal below normal forecast materialize for it will make the fifth year out of the thelast last six that the run off has failed to come up to the long long- longtime time average Of this last six years only in when million feet acre were realized did the runoff reach normal proportions the report says of the Colorado River runoff fore fore- forecast forecast cast The forecast means reo re- reservoirs in the Colorado River Storage Project will probably again suffer from a water shortage Added to the report is that of the Wyoming Soil Con Con- Conservation Service which fore fore- forecasts forecasts casts the September February 1 runoff at Green River will be acre feet or 89 per cent of the time long normal of acre feet |