Feb. 2023 | Vol. 33 Iss. 02
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CONSERVATION, WET WINTER
MAKE FOR BRIGHTER PICTURE OF LOCAL WATER SITUATION By Justin Adams | justin.a@thecityjournals.com
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You’d have to live under a rock to not know that we’re getting a lot of water this year, so that’s a really good thing,” Herriman City Councilmember Sherrie Ohrn said during a January meeting. As the council’s liaison to the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District board, Ohrn presented some information to the council about the state’s current drought conditions. “We use Trial Lake as our measuring point because it feeds a lot of different river basins, and the snow water equivalent up there right now is 15 inches, and that’s a lot. It exceeds what our peak usually is,” she said. The state has received so much winter precipitation, in fact, that many of its key reservoirs (at least in the north) could fill back up to regular levels for the first time in years. “In an average year, we usually get 100,000 acre feet of water. This year, based on some of the calculations, we might end up with 200,000 acre feet. Coincidentally, our reservoirs are down about 100,000 acre feet,” Ohrn said. “We might have an opportunity to fill our reservoirs this year, which would be great. But that’s just our reservoirs around here. That will not fill Lake Powell or Lake Mead. We’re not out of this water issue.” Later in the same meeting, Public Works Director Continued page 9 Trial Lake and other reservoirs in the Uintah Mountains that feed into the local water supply have benefitted from an extra wet winter this year. (Photo via recreation.gov)
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