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:';HJ"t it . DROUGHT The drought in the Northeastern States that was in prORress at the begmning of the year was alleviated in most parts in ~ovember. but serious water shortages in paris of ~ew Jersey and Maine lasted until December. Deficient runoff in the Great Lakes Region became very pronounced in May and 11 was still noteworthy in parts of the region in September. Greatly dericient runoff also occurred in August and September in the eastern part of the Dakotas and northern Iowa. END OF YEAR STORAGE Power, NortheaSI.-MaJor power reservoirs held more than average storage, with tew exceptions; con- tents of Gouin and Allard ReservOirs in Quebec were 90 percent of capacny. far above average. Power. Southeast.--Contents of major power reser- voirs ranged from iess than half of average (High Rock, N. C.) to far ahove average (Lake Murray. S. C.) but considering aU major reservoirs the conlent.s was a- bout average, Power, West.Central.--5torage in major power res- ervoirs was about average or greater. 100 Contents as of AVeral'(e of record September 30. 1958 ~ September 30 80 !? u . 0 . 60 u . ~ . . " '0 ,; .. . u u :!: 20 o Power. West,-In most major reservOirS contents was above average and in none was it appreciably be. low average. Irrigation.--5torage for irrigation was mostly above average; the notable excepti.ons were McKay Reservoir in Oregon (39 percent of average). Buffalo Bill Reser- voir i.n Wyoming (25 percent of average), and Belle FourChe plus Keyhole Reservoirs in South Dakota (21 percent of average). Municipal and Industrial.-Storage was mostly about average or greater. Storage in Wanaque Reservoir in :-<ew Jersey had recovered to 78 percent of average. and in San Diego municipal reservoirs not supplied with Colorado River water it had increased to 23 percent of capacity. more than 8 times as much as a year ago. Bridgeport Re.servoir in Texas was almost full. Major multiple-Wle re.servoir.s in the West.---Com- bined contents of Lakes Mead and Monave increased to 125 percent of average. Contents of Shasta Reser- voir was aimost as great as last year and 125 percent of average. Combined storage in the major ~tissourt River reservoir&--Fort Peck. Garrison, Oahe. Fort HandaU-was 20.378.000 acre-fr compared with 18.923,000 acre-ft a year ago. 1 RRlGA TIO'" MU!\lCIPAl.. &. I~DUSTRIAL (6) POWE R ~ORTHEAST (13) POWER POWER POWER SOUTHEAST WEST-CENTRAL WEST (12) (9) (8) (17) RESERVOIR STORAGE IN PERCEl'OT OF US....BLE CAPACITY. :-<umber of reservoirs or a)"stems reportE'd shown in parentheses.