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Show Uinta Basin Water-Supply Forecasts During the period from March 28 to April 1, snow surveys, with courses located in the Uinta mountains were completed by the Forest Rangers of the Ashley National forest. This same snow survey data has been conducted for a sufficient number of years streamflow quantitatively. George Geo-rge D. Clyde, Irrigation Engineer at the Utah State Agricultural college, has just compiled the 1944 snow survey data and to make it possible to forecast makes the following forcast relative re-lative to Uintah Basin's 1944 wa- The April-September yield of Ashley Creek during 1943 was 53,000 acre feet, of which 17,300 acre feet ran off during the July September period. The snow cover cov-er as measured at King's Cabin, indicates a potential water sup ply 22 per cent greater than in 1943. It is estimated that the April-September yield of Ashley Creek in 1944 will not exceed 65,000 acre feet of which probably prob-ably not more than 20,000 acre feet will run off during the July-September July-September period. Uinla River and Whiierocks Creek Water in snow storage on these watersheds this year is only 87 per cent of that in 1943. The April-September yield of Whiterocks Creek at Whiterocks for 1943 was 56,360 acre feet, of which 20,630 acre feet ran off during the July-September period. per-iod. Assuming normal precipitation precipita-tion during April-June, the yield for the same period in 1944 will probably not exceed 49,000 and 17,000 acre feet, respectively. The yield of the Uinta River at Neola during the April-September period of 1943 was 96, 400 acre feet of which 42,120 acre feet ran off during the July-September July-September period. In 1944 the yields for the same respective periods can not be expected to exceed 84,000 and 36,000 acre feet. Lake Fork Drainage The snow cover on the high areas at the head of Lake Fork this year is slightly less than that in 1943. The low snow cover cov-er is relatively heavy and the ground is moist. There will be no high spring runoff and the seasonal yield with normal precipitation, pre-cipitation, will probably not exceed ex-ceed that in 1943. |