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^Irrigation water In Ample Supply ‘IFer Current YearSnow depths on the Snake HI River watershed remain ■'$ greater than a year ago, and an ample supply of irrigation $ water appears assured for 1976, £ according to information released by watermaster Arthur L. Larson, Idaho Fails.Snow, depth at Moran is 62 :i inches, compared to 55 a year % ago, and present depth at Island ' •? Park is 60 inches—17 more than .last year. Palisades has been a lowered to 862,460 acre feel I from 969,000 last year, and $ American Falls Reservoir has 1,030,000 acre feet, which is near 4 the limit imposed for safely : treasons.i| • The new Teton Reservoir has ?! 64,860 acre feet, and the new 3 Ririe Reservoir has 17,300.. plow of the South Fork at %' Heise is 6,690cfs, ar.d flow of the main Snake at ficeley is 2,990 I,'cfs.Snow surveys at Ihe begiti-‘| ning of March found water | content 132 per cent of average $;on the Jackson Lake drainage, 3 12? per cent on the Buffalo Fork, if'.and 111 per cent on Henry’s^j-’Pork.Greatest snow depth was 125ff' inches on Lewis Lake Divide, If-with 45.5 inches water content, about 10 inches above normal.
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Wed, Mar 10, 1976
Page 27
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