Show sev I 1 er arver official makes re P ort release data on snow survey and storage water A report submitted by J lerue ogden upper sevier nver commissioner as of april 1 indicates that snowfall in the mountains on april 1 is the smallest in juanity of any year since 1934 but the amount of water in the reservoirs is the largest of any year since 1934 however the ground round water conditions are vera vcra good this year due to the large amount of rainfall in 1938 and therefore the springs are running fairly good A air I 1 r ogden reports concluding his leport mr air ogden states we can conclude that the direct flow from the river nver will be deiy materially less than it was in 1938 probably not much more than 60 per cent howe however ver the large larg e amount of water in the res reservoirs ervol rs should be enough to td insure farm eis under them enough water to mature crops in fine shape the snow covering for april I 1 this year at various stations was wa as follows widstoe escal escalante ante inches snow 74 water content upper kimberly inches sno snow 12 inches water content lower kimberly inches snow 94 inches water content pan duitch lake 14 inches snow 56 inches water content harris flat sa 8 3 inches snow 36 3 6 inches water content duck creek 28 7 inches snow 10 1 inches water content cedar breaks 49 3 inches snow inches water content this years storage water in reservoirs with comparable figures for last year in parenthesis is as follows piute diute acre feet otter creek 48 acre feet sevier bridge acre feet approximately acre feet of the storage water in the sevier bridge belongs to diute piute and will be exchanged for water entering the plute later in the season which normally would be turned down to the sevier bridge |