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Show Snow, Snow Mother Nature pulled off the best April Fool's trick by painting everything white instead of the expected green. Q cc OUR SNOW surveys were accomplished March 26 thru 30th. Mostly M helicopter. Many of our snow packs are near their record maximums. Max Phil- lips, SCS Layton, reports that Farmington upper, about 8,000 feet elevation, has J" the heaviest snow pack since record keeping began in 1951. This course was i measured March 29th. 118 inches of snow contained 43.5 inches of water for 141 D) percent of average. Snotel readings April 2nd showed a water content increase iX of 2.7 inches for a total of 46.2. The previous record at Farmington upper was 122 inches of snow with 43.2 inches of water in 1952. 1980 wasn't far behind I) with 1 13 inches of snow, 43. 1 inches water content. Si Parley's Canyon Summit was 129 percent of average with 73 inches of snow and 23.9 inches of water content. This missed setting a record by 3 inches of V water. Snotel shows the water content at 25.4 inches April 2nd, but the record -, was 90 inches of snow and 32.3 inches of water content in 1952. CHALK CREEK NO. 1 measured 86 inches of snow and 31.3 inches of water for 140 percent of average. The high reading for this course was also in 1952 when 106 inches of snow held 38.9 inches of water on March 31st Farmington Lower and Chalk Creek No. 2 snow courses were at the bottom for percent of average. Both were 125 percent of average. Ro!kSynfnSt0ra8e,iSfab0Ut aTage rangin8 from 87 Per"nt for Echo and Rockport to 1 12 percent of average for East Canyon trickwill'le' mtcon,rtetr !n Uflr mUntain SnW Packs 10 m the reservoirs. The k tnck will be to control stream flows with the reservoirs to minimize hich water 1 runoff damage and w,nd uP with full reservoirs a, the close ""ring runoff fi P;eZd?oT,rlpringhrnoff.ShU,d M g SNOW SURVEY REPORT i For April 1, 1982 Snow course Sno'Jw'L Sm" ler Zr' 7 "f Farmington (lower) 77 27 9 59 17 Averuae 5nm. ;er Farmington (upper, ,18 415 67 J M 1U 41.6 WEBER RIVER: 1 5 Beaver Creek R.S. 28 114 lq ,, Chalk Creek No. 1 86 3l'3 Z ,A 12 158 ,8'6 l: Chalk Creek No. 2 57 195 " 22 4 " U T ; Chalk Creek No. 3 25 97 Z I '5'6 125 73 25'7 Horse Ridge 80 30 2 u , A ?'5 129 46 14'5 Kilfoil Creek 57 1 ' 138 93 34-2 V Parleys Canyon '" 13-5 142 no record Summit 73 23 9 44 , Redden Mine (lower) 65 229 44 p 18 5 124 w 313 f' Smith and Morehouse 43 16 10 18 0 127 no record ijj Jy 94 12-9 126 65 24.3 i RESERVOIR STORAGE ACRE FEET p ,r C"P"dly This Ylw .,,. ' r of I Cl East Canyon 48,100 ''"r Avnv Avenge fch0 73,900 i9m 29,000 112 J Lost Creek 20,000 .h 50.7(H) 87 Rockport 60,900 17,400 nj(X) ,5 J W"lardBay ,93,300 0 87 ,jj WJ |