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Show The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 14-17, 2014 Reservoirs bounce back A-5 assemble More than just office space 11,000 Square Feet of Offices • 3,000 Square Foot Business Lounge & Cafe Conference Rooms • Teleconferencing & Audio/Visual Services with Wireless Presentation Systems Print, Copy, Scan & Fax Facilities • Flexible Lease Terms For more information, please contact our sales office at 435.200.1312 or email us at info@assembleparkcity.com • www.assembleparkcity.com DAVID HAMPSHIRE/PARK RECORD The north arm of the Jordanelle as it looked on May 1. See next page for a current perspective. knowledge that there's some improvement from a year ago. The good news is that some "SNOTEL" automated measurement stations in the High Uintas reported at least average snowfall last winter. Among them were the Trial Lake and Beaver Divide stations that contribute a significant amount of water to the Provo River. The Provo, in turn, is the major source of water for both Jordanelle and Deer Creek reservoirs. Last winter, the snowpack at Trial Lake topped out at about 114 percent of normal, according to Daryl Devey, Bonneville area operation and maintenance manager for the Central Utah Water Conservancy District. "When you narrow it down to Jordanelle, we pretty much fill on what happens at the Trial Lake/Beaver Divide SNOTEL stations, and those stations were much better than the rest of the area, and (provided) much better streamflows than the rest of the area because of But Weber River flows are still below normal By DAVID HAMPSHIRE The Park Record Water in Jordanelle Reservoir just reached 85 percent of capacity after stopping at a paltry 71 percent last summer. Rockport Reservoir - a source of Park City's drinking water - currently sits at 88 percent. Deer Creek Reservoir topped out at 90 percent on April 30. After two years of drought, life seems to be going swimmingly in 2014 in Utah's high desert. Time to roll out a couple more golf courses, right? Well, don't start the earth movers just yet. A trio of area water experts says the area is still not out of the sagebrush, though two of the three ac- the good snowpack we had at Trial Lake," Devey said. During a six-week period starting May 1, levels at Jordanelle rose about a foot a day, easily eclipsing the high-water mark from 2013. However, that increase has slowed to a trickle in recent days. "It may go up just a tiny bit more, but that will be it," Devey said Thursday. "We expect it to start coming down in the next two weeks." Devey said the majority of the water in the Jordanelle goes to culinary water systems along the Wasatch Front and irrigation companies in the Heber Valley. 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