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Show Farmers gel 85 of contracted Strawberry water this season acre feet last year. Hobble Creek Canyon is forecast for 22,000 acre feet runoff, or 93 of average. Payson Canyon is forecast for 81 of average or 6,500 acre feet runoff, according ac-cording to a report by Lynn Mendenhall, Spanish Fork, water wa-ter commissioner. The Strawberry Water Users Us-ers Association Board of Directors Di-rectors announce that after careful thought and consider- ation of forcasts and present storage in Strawberry Reservoir, Reser-voir, farmers would receive 85 percent of their contracted water wa-ter rights this summer. The active storage in the Strawberry Reservoir as of April 1, 1964, was 57,000 acre feet as compared with 54,530 acre feet as of April 1, last year. The three snow .courses in Strawberry Valley show there should be about a 66 of average av-erage inflow into the reservoir reser-voir this year, if the precipitation precip-itation is about normal this spring. This 66 of normal is about an inflow of 37,000 acre feet while the 1943-57 average aver-age is 56,000 acre feet. It will take about 59,000 acre feet to erage, or about 30,000 acre fill the 85 of the contracted rights. With the snow cover in Hobble Hob-ble Creek Canyon, Spanish Fork Canyon and Payson Canyon Can-yon the forecast runoff for Spanish Fork River should be about 70 of the 1943-57 av-feet av-feet as compared with 19,000 |