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Marc Johnson (left) and Jennifer Robinson fly a kite at Mt. Ogden Park during Friday’s warm weather. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Water managers not worrying yet about lack of snow

Last updated Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 8:53am

OGDEN -- A year ago, water managers saw snowpacks 150 percent of normal burying Utah's mountains and were worrying themselves sick about what the spring runoff would be like. This year, there's a lot less to worry about.

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Resident wants irrigation reservoir as a fishery

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 24, 2011 - 6:23am

LAYTON — Scott Green is not a fisherman. So why does he want to turn Andy Adams Reservoir into a community fishery?

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Most Utah reservoirs still full

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 11:29pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The new water year got off to an official start Saturday in Utah, with most reservoirs still full after an unusually wet winter and spring.

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Water remains plentiful in Utah

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 8:37pm

OGDEN -- It's not a problem yet, but if the coming winter is like the last one, water managers along the Wasatch Front could have to deal with having too much water.

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Heber man drowns in Deer Creek Reservoir

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 25, 2011 - 11:56pm

MIDWAY — A Utah man has drowned in Deer Creek Reservoir northeast of Provo after authorities say he was underwater for about 10 minutes.

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Mantua Reservoir issues itch warning

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, July 15, 2011 - 10:35pm

MANTUA — Swimmer’s itch, a condition blamed on a microscopic parasite that burrows into the skin, is causing problems for swimmers in Mantua Reservoir.

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Dam operators on their toes as West snowpack melts

Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 11:41am

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- On a June day, Frank Gehrke and Vince White strapped on their cross-country skis and glided across the wintry landscape of Dana Meadows in Yosemite National Park. The surrounding peaks were wrapped in snow, the breeze crisp enough for a hat and gloves.

The men screwed together four sections of a hollow aluminum tube White had carried on his backpack. With a vigorous twisting of a handle attached to the cylinder, he drove it into the layers of snow. It didn't hit dirt for another 7 feet.

After pulling up the snow-filled tube, White weighed it to gauge the water content. The Dana Meadows snowpack had enough water to form a 3-foot-deep lake.

From the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades to the northern Rockies, much of the West's high country remains buried under a thick snowpack that is filling reservoirs and engaging dam operators in a nerve-racking balancing act as they watch for jumps in temperature that could turn all those scenic piles of white into raging floodwaters.

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