UTAH WATER LEVELS

[mikecromaine]

SOMEONE POSTED A WEBSITE THAT SHOWED THE WATER LEVELS IN THE LAKES. WITH ALL THIS RAIN WE HAVE GOT I WAS WONDERING HOW MUCH IT HAS COME UP. IF SOMEONE HAS THAT WEBSITE WOULD YOU PLEASE POST IT AGAIN. THANKS MY EYE IS ON WILLARD !!!!!![sly]
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[DKSRenegade]

Very little rain fall makes it into the rivers this time of the year. With the past 5 years of drought, even less than normal. Most of the rain and to a large degree much of this years snow pack will be absorbed into the soil before it has a chance to get into the streams. There will always be cloudy looking water after a rain storm, but it will have very little impact on the level of the river or stream. These conditions are a good reminder for all of us to conserve water as much as we can. DKS
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[mikecromaine]

OK I AM AFTER THE WEBSITE THAT SHOWS WATER LEVELS PLEASE.

NOW I DISAGREE THAT VERY LITTLE RAIN FALL MAKES IT IN TO STREAMS AND RIVERS. I LIVE IN SLC AND ON THE WAY TO WORK THE CANALS AROUND MY HOUSE WERE SWOLLEN ALMOST OVER THE BANKS NOW I KNOW THIS HAPPENS TO TO RIVERS AS WELL WHEN THERE IS ALOT OF RAIN. LOOK AT MEXICO THIS YEAR YEARS AND YEARS OF DROUGHT THEN THEY GET ALOT OF RAIN AND FLOOD HAPPENS BECAUSE THE RIVER ARE OVER FILLED AND BECOME VERY LARGE.AND THAT WATER GOES WERE TO SOME LARGER BODY OF WATER DOWN STREAM.

I AM JUST WONDERING IF THIS FLOODING THAT IS HAPPENING IN FARMINGTON AND OGDEN AREA. THE LARGEST RAIN FALL IN ONE HOUR IN 50 YEARS HOW MUCH IT MAY HAVE BROUGHT UP THE LOWER LAKES
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[cat_man]

Hey Mike, I'm the one that posted the water levels website. You can get to it from KSL.com. Here is the link again:

[url "http://water.ksl.com/index.php?nid=12"]http://water.ksl.com/index.php?nid=12[/url]

[#ffffff][size 4]Reservoirs [/size][/#ffffff] [#000099]feet below full[/#000099] [#000099]% full[/#000099] Bear Lake -19 79% Flaming Gorge -30 70% Pineview -24 47% Jordanelle -28 75% Echo -21 63% Deer Creek -43 42% Strawberry -21 70% Lake Powell -117 42% [#999999][size 1]Updated: 24-Mar-04[/size][/#999999]

As you can see, the report hasn't been updated since March 24th, so this could be much different as of today. We'll just have to keep checking this page to see when it gets updated with new info.
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[mikecromaine]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

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[glassyeyedPaul]

To get a rough idea of how much water in comparison to last year... Lindon harbor was very shallow and so was American Fork as well as Provo Harbor, you couldn't get a boat out especially when the water is only anywhere from 8 inches at the mouth of the harbor to 2 feet inside last October. Ok right now you can get your boat out no problem just saw a 28 foot boat hightail it out of AF harbor and then a 25 footer no problem out of Lindon harbor. It is now about six feet and rising. Yahooo! but that is until those numbnuts open the gates at the pumphouse...
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[DKSRenegade]

That is because the water you are seeing is coming into the canals from storm drain collection. It is very different up in the mountains where there are no curbs, roads, parking lots, or other nonimpervious surfaces to collect the rain or snow melt. Now lower ponds that are filled by storm drain collection water is a different story. They will be affected immediately by rainfall. You are right about local high rainfall like Farmington had. In cases like that the water levels will rise for a day or so in the streams in that area. The problem is that isolated rain doesn't produce enough total water to effect the lakes very much. I wish that it did! DKS
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[PBH]

This site will give you pretty accurate snow water equivalent, and total precip percentages. We are nowhere near what we should be. "All" this rain we have been getting is next to nothing...can you say "DROUGHT"?



[size 1][url "ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/snow/update/ut.txt"]ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/snow/update/ut.txt[/url][/size]
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[hedgesd]

I like this site but it's the same info as PBH's.

[url "http://www.met.utah.edu/droman/states/UT_state_frame.html"]http://www.met.utah.edu/droman/states/UT_state_frame.html[/url]
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[brookieboy]

Hey,

For you southern Utah boys, this link might be interesting...

[url "http://www.sevierriver.org/"]http://www.sevierriver.org/[/url][;)]
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[southernman]

i like this site for snow levels:

[url "ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/snow/update/ut.txt"]ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/snow/update/ut.txt[/url]



sm[url "ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/snow/update/ut.txt"][/url]
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