Utah's snowpack is officially the highest it has ever been by the middle of March in more than 40 years.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's snowpack is officially the highest it has ever been in the middle of March, in more than 40 years.
The statewide snowpack reached an average of 23.2 inches of snow water equivalent Wednesday morning, according to Natural Resources Conservation Service data. The agency's figure is based on the amount of water in the snow at 114 mountain sites across Utah. Record books date back to the beginning of the 1980s, with the previous record snowpack for mid-March being 23.1 inches set in 1997. The current figure is also now within 3 inches ofSnowpack collection and spring runoff account for about 95% of the state's water supply. The Utah Division of Water Resources reports that Utah's reservoir system is currently at 54% capacity, up from 42.5% at the start of the water year on Oct. 1, 2022. The average for mid-March is about 61.5%.
Some reservoirs are already close to full capacity. The division lists a half-dozen reservoirs as being at least 85% full, including Gunlock Reservoir in Washington County. The Gunlock State Park waterfalls, a feature caused by runoff from the reservoir, began flowing Wednesday for the first time since 2020.in anticipation that the waterfalls would return.
Despite the high snowpack and closer-to-normal reservoir levels, nearly nine-tenths of Utah remains in at least a moderate drought, including almost 40% in either a severe or extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. However,
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