SALT LAKE CITY — It is such a beautiful time of year as the colors as the leaves change, and right now, we’ve got a little more water in local streams and rivers. Experts say this has been Salt Lake City's wettest October on record, and that's particularly good ahead of our snowpack season.

"Oct. 1 is the beginning of the water year, so that’s how hydrologists really check the whole water year that we get from October through the end of September, and the beginning of that has been spectacular! It really has been great," said Michael Sanchez, a hydrologist with Utah's Division of Water Resources. "You can think of our soil as kind of a sponge... If you have a dry sponge, the water will just get soaked up into the soil and it’ll just stay there. And if you have good soil moisture... that m

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