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Show South Utah Water Level Brighter Than Other Areas Water outlook this spring in southern Utah remains excellent ex-cellent dispite a less favorable favor-able prospect for the remain der of the state, according to a report issued this month by Gregory L. Pearson, snow survey sur-vey supervisor of the Soil Conservation Con-servation Service. In the southern Utah area streamflows this spring are near 120 , percent of normal. Streams with streamflow forecasts fore-casts exceeding 110 percent are as follows: Parowan Creek and Coal Creek in Iron County; Clear Creek near Sevier; East Fork Sevier near Kingston, near Circleville, Sevier below Piute . Dam, Sevier at Hatch, Virgin, Paria and Escalante rivers. . . - I According to the forecast Lake Powell April-July. fore-J casted inflow , decreased from 104 percent to 90 percent of normal due to below normal March precipitation on the Green, Colorado and San Juan i Rivers. , On a state wide level, con-, trary to . first impressions, J March weather failed to improve im-prove the water supply outlook out-look for the State as a whole. From all appearance the weather was a continuation of the pattern during February -above normal temperatures and frequent showers especially espec-ially along the valleys and west slopes in northern Utah. However, over the head water areas of the major river svs- terns, especially in northern Utah, precipitation was only about three-fourths of normal and although some slight improvement im-provement was noted in the Uintah Basin, most streams in the State lost a little ground during the month. Southwestern Utah was the only section of the state with percentages predicted above the 120 percent of normal mark. .. |