Tuesday the Department of Water Resources conducted the first snow survey of the season at Philips Station. The DWR said the manual survey recorded 7.5 inches of snow depth and snow water equivalent of three inches, which, the officials say is 30 percent of the average for this location. Across the state, the snowpack is 25 percent of average for this date, The DWR says the start of this water has been dry despite some recent storms in the last weeks of December that provided a small boost in the snowpack