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<br />, <br />001794 <br /> <br />- 3 - <br /> <br />The mountain snowpack received very little additional snow during the month of <br />JanuarJ. Snow surveys conducted by the Soil Conservation Service on February 1 <br />indicate an average basin snowpack of l36% of normal. This compares to a January <br />1 average of 134%. <br /> <br />Streamflow during January continued to decline with the flow on the San Juan River <br />at Bluff, Utah of 44,500 acre-feet, 93% of normal, Inflow to Navajo Reservoir <br />continued to remain above normal with a flow of 26,100 acre-feet, l57% with a <br />total inflow since October 1 of nearly 140,000 acre-feet, l52%. <br /> <br />The storage in Navajo Reservoir on January 3l, 1984 was l.46 million acre-feet, <br />36% of capacity, 133% of average and about the same storage as last year at this <br />time. <br /> <br />The possibility of some snovm\elt flooding this spring has been significantly <br />reduced b~t is still threatening particularly in the Animas drainage, and even <br />other drainages, if an adverse snowmelt pattern should occur this spring, <br />