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Show Danger of lake flooding Heavy storms pose problems Winter's heaviest snow storm hit here Tuesday bringing a downpour of rain earlier in the day and then turning to a h c : v y downfall of snow throughout all the afternoon and continuing into the night. Light snow continued falling Wednesday to bring a total of 8 to 10 inches of new snow the heaviest snow fall of the winter here. With the storm came a warning warn-ing nf the critical avanche conditions ex'.iisting in the nearbv mountains and forest officials issued a call to would-be would-be skiers, or these riding snowmobiles snow-mobiles to stay cut of the steep canyons until the storm had p.bated. A snow slide up Prove Canyon Wednesday kept skiers frr.m the skiing areas for some time: Already the sno.v packed hills are far above normal for this time of the year in comparison com-parison to previous years' averages av-erages and the new snowstorms have added heavily to the snow pack. The forecasts of snow oack show from 100 to 140 percent per-cent of average. I'tah Lake rising Concerned with the rising level of Utah Lake, the Utah Lake Land Owners Association held its annual meeting last night at the county commission commis-sion chambers under the direction direc-tion of its president, D. Ray Chipman, American Fork. At the present time the lake is within five inches of compromise com-promise point and rising as compared with 1.66 feet last year and two feet two years ago, making it a foot higher already than a year ago, and a foot and seven inches above two years ago. Estimates are at the present that the lakc may rise a foot or two feet above compromise point. Should it rise to this amount, it would flood thousands of acres of lake-side farm land. Difficulty Difficul-ty of preventing the surrounding surround-ing lands from being flooded is indicated by the fact th.it the inflow of water to the lake at present is around 4000 second feet. Water is flowing out of the lake through the Jordan River at the rate of approximately approxi-mately 500 second feet, land owners report. At the Wednesday night meeting Alfred Madsen and Harold Mendenhall, representatives representa-tives on River Dam Commission, Commis-sion, were scheduled to tell the land owners association what has been done thus far to keep the level of the lake down. Association As-sociation directors were to make recommendations concerning con-cerning how the level of the lake might be controlled in I he future. Directors and officers of the association were scheduled to be elected following the discussion discus-sion of the lake problem. |