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Show Watersheds Show Critical Snow and Water Shortage Snow surveys completed at the close of March on eleven watersheds water-sheds of Southern Utah forecast sub-normal moisture for 1948, according ac-cording to an announcement mads Wednesday by Albert Albertson. forest supervisor at Cedar City. Reports Re-ports thow generally the snow cover to be 43 per cent and and the water content 40 per cent of normal. i The measurements were made by rangers of the National Park Service Ser-vice and Dixie National Forest, cooperating with George D. Clyde, Irrigation engineer in charge of mow surveys for Utah. The survey showed the following snow coverages and water content as compared w'th lest year and the average for the past ten-year period, per-iod, as follows: Ten-Year 1943 1945 1937-1946 Average Sonw Water Snow Water Snow Water Depth Content Tepth Content Depth Content Snow Course (Inches) (Inches) (Inches) (Inches) (Inches) (Inches) Pangultch Lake 3.1 1.6 23.5 6.8 19.7 7.4 Webster Flat 37.9 11.5 67.9 20.9 57.4 20.5 Cedar Breaks 48.6 16.1 84.6 31.6 71.5 25.3 Euck Creek .... 27.9 8.3 68 8 24.4 49.8 17.5 Harris Flat 6.7 3.1 44.4 14.8 28.6 10.8 Sevier Summit None None 32.3 11.8 15.9 6.7 Pine VaHey 31.0 10.9 78.4 25.2 61.0 21.3 Average 222 7 4 68 19.4 43T4 15.6 "" ' Three-Year Escalante Summit .... 16.4 4.1 39.9' 12.1 33.1 96 Seven-Year Bryce Canyon None None 3.3 8.8 183 5.9 Five-Year Bowery Valley 21.4 7.5 24.4 1C.00 33.0 9.6 Yankee MeadoviU V." 32.1 7.3 46.2 11.9 45.1 12.1 Averages 2678 TA 413 1L0 391 To.9 These watersheds furnish water for drainages Into the Sevier and Virgin rivers, Coal Creek, Bowery Creek, the E-calante river and other oth-er Important drainages In the southern part of the state. The Cncw surveys definitely indicate there will be a severe shortage of irrigalion water during the growing season cf 1946 unless the shortage is oft-set by cmple rainfall during the spring and summer. |