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Show Galcmlated Odcls Say Some Flooding Mkely an all-time wet month and March and April were not far behind. Earlier predictions, assuming normal weather for the rest of the spring, placed the lake level at between be-tween 4,208.25 and 4,209 feet by early summer. ALREADY the lake level is officially offi-cially at 4,208. 10- and rising rapidly. rapid-ly. With an adverse spring snow-melt, snow-melt, the lake level could rise an additional 1.5 to 2 feet thus, reaching a peak of more than 4,210 feet. If that happens, the north plant of the South Davis Sewer Improvement Improve-ment District could be under water (See related story, Front Page). MEANWHILE, the rising lake level has caused extensive damage almost demolished famed Saltair Sal-tair and has damaged several craft left at the south shore marina. Traffic Traf-fic is still allowed on Interstate Highway 80 west of Tooele but has been reduced to 20 miles per hour in places where shallow water covers cov-ers the Interstate. By GARY R. BLODGETT Clipper News Editor Just like horse racing, sports vents, even life and death: there re now "calculated odds" of the ood potential along the Wasatch ront. AND THE oddsmakers have in-reased in-reased the odds of potential flood's flood-'s this spring from 9.2 to 9.4 on a :alc of one to ten. As a comparison, this is the same ood potential odds as a year ago y I). Last spring the odds re-lained re-lained at 9.4 until about May 25 hen they jumped to 9.6. THEN THE floods came roaring )wn 'he mountain streams caus-g caus-g millions of dollars damage to Jhlic and private property. But as the odds remain the same. ie potential for more serious '"ding this spring remains "ex-emely "ex-emely high." FOR EXAMPLE, first-of-the-1 onth readings of water content in J e mountains - that which must ner or later flow to the Great ill Lake - was about 145 percent normal with 8 to 10 inches more water in the existing snow pack than was recorded at the same time a year ago. Worse yet, is the forecast of cooler and wetter weather for the month of May and the forecast certainly got off to a booming start. DAVIS COUNTY was hit with a series of heavy thunderstorms last week with more than 1 .25 inches falling in the valleys and up to two feet of snow in the mountains above 8,000 feet. Officials from the U.S. Geological Geolo-gical Survey, meanwhile, said the level of the Great Salt Lake reached 4,208.10 feet above sea level at the May 1 reading near the lake's south shore. THIS IS .35-foot increase over the previous reading of 4,207.75 feet on Monday, April 16. The rise of the lake by more than four inches in-ches in 15 days is constant with the continuing lake rise for the past four months. The level of the lake between March 15 and April 15 tied an all-time all-time high record for a 30-day period - 10.2 inches. The previous high was in December 1983. THAT MEANS December was |