Show Water Supply Outlook for Eastern Utah as of February For the fourth consecutive precipitation over eastern Utah has been much below Monthly amounts during of the Strawberry and Duchesne over the higher less than half of Rivers and over Lake Fork were Over the headwaters of Price River and Huntington C January's precipitation averaged only of normal with less than experienced over the lower valley areas The present water-supply outlook loi major hum eastern Utah is very unfavorable If near normal through June the February-September for the and Price Rivers and Huntington Creek is expected to be than half of the average For Duchesne Lake Fork and Ashley to 70 of average February-September runoff is Held-over storage in the principal reservoirs is of Water in storage at the close of the storage a year to acre-feet a compared was acre-feet year ago for Strawberry Reservoir and compared to acre feet a year ago for Scofield Listed below are forecasts of for the major streams of eastern Stream ami Station February-September Forecast ec acre-feet Ashley Creek near Utah 64 Duchesne River at Provo River Trails near Utah 74 near Utah 71 at Utah 18 Strawberry River Strawberry Reservoir Inflow 49 at Utah 53 Lake Fork Moon Lake Reservoir Inflow 67 Price River Scofield Reservoir Inflow 54 near Utah 48 Huntington Creek near Utah 62 Weather Bureau Salt Lake Utah Eugene L. Chief Hydrologist |