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I I The first, of course, is the rather dry situation that we had in January and February. We are having a rather normal March so while the overall forecast is down it isn't as bad as it looked two months ago. We are looking forward now to something like 6.7 million acre-feet for the April-July period and this water is in between the portions of the Basin that you see here. This first picture shows us the Colorado River. This is a photograph near Rifle. The Colorado at cisco, which pro- vides about 45 percent of the water supplies of the Basin, is 114 percent of normal a~.you see. The Green River, this is the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam, provides 34 percent normally of the Basin's water supply and it is 79 percent of normal. The San Juan which pro- vides 16 percent is now 85 percent. The remain- ing 5 percent if you have been keeping track of this, comes from ungauged tributaries below these principal measuring points. So overall the March 1st forecast is 6.7 million acre- feet. This will translate into the water year of about a 10 million acre-feet of water. We did have a nice storm in part of the Basin two days ago. there was 15 inches at Durango. shoveled that off his walk . . . the southern I understand If Fred " MR. KROEGER. "My wife does thatl" MR. CRANDALL I "The March storm patterns have been near normal. In my own experience here which extends for less than five years, a normal situation is a very good situation. I have never seen it better myself. On the second page of the report, trans- lating this into effects on the reservoirs, we have prepared some diagrams to show you dia- gramatically the dam and the proportion of water in the impoundment. Lake Powell is now about 130 feet below full and it has a live storage content of 9~ million acre-feet roughly.