It’s time to take a look at water levels and talk numbers with Utah Division of Water Resources Drought Coordinator, Laura Haskell. She was eager to share this year’s data with Castle Country Radio listeners.

As a state, we did quite well with snowpack levels this year. “We have about 19 inches of water in our snowpack state wide and our typical peak is 16 inches, right around this time of year, so that good news. Nothing really record breaking like last year but still a little bit above average, so great news,” said Haskell. This means that there is still several inches of water left in the snowpack that must come down into the reservoirs. Some residents may have noticed water at the golf course that comes from Scofield. Officials are making small releases to make room for what’s yet to come because they do anticipate Scofield to become full this year.

As for the Carbon and Emery County areas our numbers are looking great and are on average to where we should be this time of year. “The Price/San Rafael Basin is at about 118 percent of the medium peak. The peak usually happens about Apr. 7 and yea, looking good, again, nothing alarmingly, not 200 percent to where we’re worried about flooding too much, but 118 percent so good numbers there,” explained Haskell. This means that all of our reservoirs are going to be full, and spilling over as well, which is a really good sign of what type of winter we had this year.

Although we have the water its still very important to still make those conservation efforts around one’s home and property. You can visit the https://slowtheflow.org/

website to get tips and tricks on how to conserve water. There is also an option to receive rebates for your water conservation efforts as Haskell explains, “We also have rebates available, so if you want to change out your landscaping, to put in some beautiful waterwise plants in your yard, you can look for rebates on there. Or if you have an older toilet, you can change that out and get a rebate on the https://slowtheflow.org/ website.” The website is a great tool to use to help homeowners know when and how many times they need to water their lawns for our area.

The Division of Water Resources website at https://water.utah.gov/ is another great resource for water conservation tips.