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Show Snow Survey Is Above Average; Haiti Gauge Set Up The snow survey made Jan. 31, 1952 on the Kings Cabin snow measurement course of the Brush Creek Drainage. Ashley National Forest, by Gregory Pearson and Alton Vernon, of the Soil Conservation Service, and Burton O. Clark, of the Forest Service, showed a better bet-ter than average snowfall. The average snow depth is 35.2 inches, with a water content con-tent equivalent of 9.2 inches. There are 2.1 times as much snow and 2.71 times as much water content this year as measurements meas-urements showed at same date in 1951. This is about the same as the - average for the total snowfall and water content of the measurements taken in March of past years. Snow measurements furnish information to water users relative rel-ative to the amount of water which will be available for irrigation, irri-gation, culinary and industrial purposes during the summer months. The amount of water delivered by stream flow is not as important as how, when and in what condition it is delivered to the water user. Healthy watersheds wa-tersheds having a good cover of vegetation insure steady, clear stream flow with no dan-1 ger of damaging floods. Water delivered under healthy watershed water-shed conditions is usable water. Additional snow measure- ments will be taken the last ! week in Febrn,N The March sUuarN; the total expeS6 I other measurern?,.8"0'!; : 1 tribution of ! throughout th e'it,V l and I furnish inform rto flood threat at n I the spring run-0ff i!)e t: total snowfall on iu e '.-;bin '.-;bin snow coir I of snow contain J'1 ; I "i-.? 9 5 inches ,the ? occrt. - water. "a a ( A rain gauge has y, I 1 lished on the KinKsS o Course this year r : I Q, bekeptofthelmalfc which occurs during ' ' of April andMayjg ' |
