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Show Water Supply for Utah below average Utah' Water Supply Outlook ranges from poor to near ayerage for summer according to the Soil Conservation Service June report. The report states that several reservoirs are already being drawn down for irrigation use and storage is well below what it was this time last year. Precipitation at mountain stations ranged from three percent of average at Tall Poles on the Parowan Creek drainage to 240 percent of average at Orange Olsen on the San Rafael River. Most stations report well below average catches for the month of May. Accumulative precipitation from October 1 to June 1 ranged from 61 percent of average at Dutchman Ranger Station on the American Fork River to 117 percent at Panguitch Lake on the Upper Sevier. .The Soil Conservation Service also reports that soil moisture was apparently well below ayerage the last couple of months, because the near average snow pack generally failed to bring out the expected flows indicating that much of the snow melt went to replenishing mountain soils. 0 |