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Show Snow Measurements Reveal Below Normal Water Supply Mid March snow measurements of snow courses on the Bowery Creek drainage of Parowan Canyon Can-yon have just been completed according ac-cording to Wilford Bentley, U. S. forest ranger, Dixie National Forest. For-est. The average snow depth at the Yankee Reservoir was 25.8 inches with a water content of 7.6 inches. inch-es. At Bowery Valley, the average snow depth was 18.12 inches with a water content of 5.55 inches. I The above measurements are only 66 per cent of the 12-year average for the Yankee Reservoir area, and 62 percent for the Bowery Bow-ery Valley area. Unless above average precipitation precipi-tation is received during the remainder re-mainder of March and through April this will be one of the scarcer scar-cer water years for the people of Parowan, Ranger Bentley stated. stat-ed. These measurements were made on Tuesday of last week, we understand, and since that day considerable storm has come to this section of the state, and if the storm has reached into the mountains in proportion to what winter storms usually do, the water situation should be improved considerably by this time. Rain and snowfall measured at the Parowan weather station and reported to us by Max Hendrickson Hendrick-son for this week is as followsL Sunday, Mar. 21, .05 of an inch; Monday, Mar. 22, 2 of an Inch; Tuesday, Mar. 23, .20 of an inch, and Wednesday, Mar. 24, .12 of an inch, at a total of .61 of an inch. And there was more snow on the ground this morning. |