Highway 13 - Pangman to Assiniboia. 
Conditions were generally fair with good 
water in some localities. 
Assiniboia to Cadillac. Water condi¬ 
tions appeared fairly good though difficult 
to assess as most marshes are some dis¬ 
tance from the road. 
Highway 4 - Cadillac to Swift Current. 
Slough basins, where present, were in 
generally good condition. 
Swift Current area. Water conditions 
improved remarkably from the severe 
drought situation which existed in 1964. 
All sloughs were in excellent shape and 
semipermanent basins that were dry last 
fall now have from four to five feet of 
water. 
Highway 19 - Highway 1 to Highway 15. 
Water conditions were generally good. 
Most type 2 basins were well filled and 
there was a fair amount of sheet water. 
Highway 4 - Swift Current to Rosetown. 
Water conditions were excellent. North 
of Elrose several extremely large flats 
have been flooded. 
Highway 7 - Rosetown to west of Kin- 
dersley. Water conditions were excellent. 
Brock slough is presently several hundred 
acres in extent. 
Kindersley area. Water conditions 
were the best observed since the high 
water years of the midfifties and many 
of the semipermanent basins which were 
dry in 1964 are now secure for the cur¬ 
rent season. 
Highway 30 - Kindersley to Kerrobert. 
Water conditions were excellent with many- 
large flooded flats in evident. 
Stratum B 
Grid road - Kerrobert to Scott. Water 
conditions were excellent, grid road was 
nearly under water in several spots. 
Wilkie area. Water conditions were 
excellent. Average slough depth was one 
foot greater than in 1964 arid many sloughs 
have flooded into cropland. Back roads 
were under water in many localities. 
Brood areas were secure for this season. 
Highway 14 - Scott to Biggar. Water 
conditions were exceptionally good, 
roughly comparable to those observed at 
Wilkie. 
Biggar to Perdue. Conditions were 
not quite as good as farther west but still 
very, satisfactory. 
Perdue to Saskatoon. Country is 
sandy and water conditions were not par¬ 
ticularly good. Most basins were below 
capacity. 
Saskatoon area. Water levels have 
increased markedly (average depth was 
up 16. 4 feet) over those of 1964 in spite 
of subnormal (92%) winter precipitation. 
The number of brood sloughs available 
this season will certainly be greater 
than for the past few years. 
Highway 5 - Saskatoon to Highway 2. 
Most small basins were filled to capacity 
but larger sloughs have not improved to 
the same extent. Sheet water was good. 
Highway 5 - Junction Highway 2 to 
Junction Highway 3. Water levels were 
good but not exceptional. Basins were not 
flooded beyond brush rims. 
Highway 3 - Junction Highway 2 to Mel- 
fort. Conditions were generally good but 
not exceptional. 
Melfort area. Water conditions were 
almost exactly the same as in 1964. Run¬ 
off was almost four inches greater than in 
1964 but this gain only served to compen¬ 
sate for the unusually high water loss 
experienced in 1964. 
Highway 6 - Melfort to Dafoe. Water 
conditions were somewhat variable but 
generally good. 
Dafoe to Raymore. There was a mod¬ 
erate amount of sheet water and perhaps 
half the sloughs and dugouts were not 
filled to capacity. 
Summation 
Water conditions in the western part of 
stratum A west were excellent, while 
eastern half varied from good in the north 
to only fair in the south in the Missouri 
Coteau. The northwestern corner of stra¬ 
tum A east was in very poor condition. 
Stratum B ranged from excellent in the 
southwest to good in the central part. 
Stratum C was surveyed briefly in early 
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