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Show Water picture looks brighter Continued cold temperatures along with generally good precipitation pre-cipitation during March have improved the water supply outlook for Utah County. Soil Conservation Service snow survey, Stanley Peterson, reports that the snow pack water wa-ter content on the courses measured to date are running from 80 to 114 percent of the 1943-57 average. As has been the case throughout the winter, the larger percentages are found on the lower courses. This is primarily due to the winter storms that struck hardest at lower elevations and the cold temperatures that have held back the normal melt to this late date. This could be misleading, mis-leading, so far as the overall picture is concerned, unless it is remembered that most of ' this low water will be gone before be-fore the irrigation season really real-ly gets under way. It is considerably con-siderably more important from the standpoint of potential fast snow melt, should the right weather conditions exist, than from the standpoint of available irrigation supply.- Hobble Creek Summit at an elevation of 7300 feet on April 1, had 54 inches of snow with 14.3 inches of water. A year ago there were 6.3 inches of water. The 15 year average was 14.8 inches of water, therefore the present water content is 96 percent of average. aver-age. Packard Canyon at an elevation ele-vation of 6400 feet has 45 inches in-ches of snow with 10.7 inches of water. A year ago there were 2.8 inches of water. The 15 year average is 10.5 inches of water, therefore, the present pres-ent water content is 102 percent per-cent of average. |