Show WATER SUPPLY OUTLOOK Uintah Basin Daggett S. C. D.'s as of May 1963 GENERAL OUTLOOK Record to near record precipitation amounts during April greatly improved the water outlook picture on all streams covered by this Reference to the precipitation table will show how much above average the mountain rain and snowfall actually conditions have been much below normal this with the higher elevation snow courses showing more water than on April For Paradise Park with 9 1 inches snow water has essentially doubled the inches measured last Because of the delayed soils underneath the are drier than usual for May 1st and so will not yield the normal amount from the existing the delaying during April will cause the streams to rise higher during the time of the peak flow and to hold up longer into the summer STATE OUTLOOK Snow and rainfall during April in the mountains of central and northern areas of Utah varied between about and of In southwestern areas it varied from about to of average In the southeast it was about to As a prospects are generally much improved over last Water outlook in central and northern areas now varies from just to It is still very poor in the southwestern and southeastern 80 to of average May-September water yields are expected from the following streams Bear above Evanston and Ogden northern Uintah Basin streams from the Duchesne to Uinta Strawberry reservoir Cottonwood Creeks near Salt the San Pitch San Rafael and Muddy and Scofield reservoir 60 to is now expected from the Bear river and all its Utah tributaries above Evanston Lost Creek near East Canyon Creek near streams near Utah Lake inflow and its southern tributary streams Strawberry and Whiterocks Ashley and Brush the Fremont and 15 to Virgin and Bear rivers and adjacent smaller also those near Monticello and Blanding |