| Show water prospects best in F five i ive years prospects for water for the 1938 irrigation season are better than for the past 5 years and probably this is the case for the past ten years according to an informal lepori report submitted by J lerue ogden upper sevier river commissioner measurements of the depth of snow at the various snow courses of the watershed are arc now being 2 ing made but no data is yet available from this source unofficial reports indicate that the snow cover is somewhere near normal there is a large carryover carry over of water in the reservoirs because of the heavy snowfall of 1936 1937 and also due to the fact that the return flow from lands irrigated above the reservoirs was larger last season than for several years because of the plentiful supply of water on january 1 of this year were acre feet of water in the piute diute reservoir and feet in the otter creek or in each case more than twice as much as last year and more than four times as much as there was in either reservoir on january 1 1935 |
