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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- The recent snowfall in Utah is good, but it may not be good enough.
Snowpack specialists say the snowpack totals are above average, but Utah will still need at least one storm a week from now until April to recharge depleted water levels.
They say even 100 percent snowpack won't mean 100 percent runoff. That's because so much moisture has been depleted from the soil that much of the runoff will go straight into the soil and not reach the reservoirs.
Right now, the Bear Lake basin is at 119 percent of the average. But the reservoir at Bear Lake only has 15-thousand acre feet left of a total one-point-three (m) million acre feet available for irrigation.
Still, snowpack specialists say Utah's doing really good as far as snowpack is concerned.
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