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Don Price

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USGS1972

Quality of surface water in the Bear River basin, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho

The United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Rights, began a reconnaissance in 1967 to obtain essential water-quality information for the Bear River basin. The reconnaissance was directed toward defining the chemical quality of the basin’s surface waters, including suitability for specific uses, geology, and general basin hydrology. Emphasis was given to those areas where water-development projects are proposed or being considered.

Idaho, Utah, Wyoming↗
USGS1972

Map showing general chemical quality of ground water in the Salina quadrangle, Utah

The general chemical quality of water was determined from quality-of-water data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and cooperating State, local, and Federal agencies. Sources of data include springs, and wells that tap aquifers at depths of less than 1,000 feet. In areas where quality-of-water data are inadequate or lacking, the limits of dissolved solids are inferred from geologic data. More exact determination of the chemical quality of ground water in any given part of the map area can be made only on the basis of special investigations. More detailed information on the chemical quality of ground water in specific areas is obtainable from the district office of the Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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USGS1972

Map showing general availability of ground water in the Salina quadrangle, Utah

The general availability of ground water was determined from well records collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and cooperating State, local, and Federal agencies. Data are for aquifers that in most places are less than 1,000 feet below the land surface. In areas of few or no wells, potential well yields are inferred from geologic data. Special investigations are needed to determine specific factors such as depths and sustained yields of aquifers, water levels, and suitability of water for use in any given area. More detailed information about principal aquifers for specific parts of the map area are obtainable from the district office of the Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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USGS1972

Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Blue Creek Valley area, Box Elder County, Utah

This report is the tenth in a series of reports prepared by the U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Rights, that describe the water resources of selected areas in northwestern Utah. The purpose of this report is to present available hydrologic data for the Blue Creek Valley area and to provide a quantitative evaluation of the potential water-resources development of the area.

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USGS1970

Hydrology reconnaissance of the Sink Valley area, Tooele and Box Elder Counties, Utah

This is the sixth in a series of reports by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Rights, which describe the water resources of selected basins in western Utah. Areas covered by previously published reports in this series are shown in figure 1 and are listed on page 29. The purpose of this report is to present available hydrologic data on the Sink Valley (Puddle Valley) area, to provide an evaluation of the potential for water-resource development in the area, and to serve as a basis for planning possible later detailed investigations.

Utah↗
USGS1970

Hydrologic reconnaissance of Grouse Creek valley, Box Elder County, Utah

This report is the seventh in a series by the U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Rights, which describes water resources of the western basins of Utah. Its purpose is to present available hydrologic data on Grouse Creek valley, to provide an evaluation of the potential water-resource development of the valley, and to identify studies that would help provide a better understanding of the valley's water supply

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USGS1969

Hydrologic reconnaissance of Rush Valley, Tooele County, Utah

This report is the third in a series by the U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Rights, which describes the water resources of the western basins of Utah. Its purpose is to present available hydrologic data for Rush Valley, to provide an evaluation of the potential water-resources development of the valley, and to identify needed studies that would help provide an understanding of the valley's water supply.

Utah↗
USGS1969

Hydrologic reconnaissance of Curlew Valley, Utah and Idaho

This report is the fifth in a series of reports prepared by the U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Rights, that describe the water resources of selected basins in western Utah. Previously published reports in this series are listed on page 35 and the areas covered by them are shown in figure 1. The purpose of this report is to present available hydrologic data on the Utah part of Curlew Valley, to provide an evaluation of the potential water-resource development of the valley, and to identify needed studies that would help provide an understanding of the valley's water supply.

Idaho, Utah↗
USGS1967

Ground water in the Eola-Amity Hills area, northern Willamette Valley, Oregon

The Eola-Amity Hills area ,comprises about 230 square miles on the west side of the Willamette Valley between Salem and McMinnville, Oreg. The area is largely rural, and agriculture is the principal occupation. Rocks ranging in age from Eocene to Recent underlie the area. The oldest rocks are a sequence more than 5,000 feet thick of marine-deposited shale and siltstone strata, with thin interbeds of sandstone that range in age from Eocene to middle Oligocene. They are widely exposed in and west of the Eola-Amity Hills and underlie younger sedimentary and volcanic rocks throughout the study area. In the Eola-Amity Hills and Red Hills of Dundee, the Columbia River Group, a series of eastward-dipping basaltic lava flows locally of Miocene age, and conformably overlies the marine sedimentary rocks. The Columbia River Group ranges in thickness from less than 1 foot to about 900 feet and has an average thickness of about 200 feet. The formation is exposed in the Eola-Amity Hills and Red Hills of Dundee and, at places, extends to the east beneath younger rocks. Overlying the Columbia River Group and marine sedimentary rocks are nonmarine sedimentary deposits that range in thickness from less than 1 foot, where they lap up (to an altitude of about 200 ft) on the flanks of the higher hills, to several hundred feet along the east margin of the study area. These deposits include the Troutdale Formation of Pliocene age, the Willamette Silt of late Pleistocene age, and alluvium of the Willamette River and its tributaries. The Troutdale Formation and the alluvium of the Willamette River contain the most productive aquifers in the Eola-Amity Hills area. These aquifers, which consist mainly of sand and gravel, generally yield moderate to large quantities of water to properly constructed wells. Basalt of the Columbia River Group yields small to moderate quantities of water to wells, and the marine sedimentary rocks and Willamette Silt generally yield small but adequate quantities of water for domestic and stock supplies. Ground water from the Columbia River Group and nonmarine sedimentary rocks is chemically suitable for irrigation and other uses, as is the water from shallow depths in the marine sedimentary rocks. However, water from depths of more than several hundred feet in the marine sedimentary rocks contains large amounts of chloride and other dissolved mineral constitutents that make it unsuitable for most uses. Samples from three fairly closely spaced wells obtaining water from depth zones of 50 to 77, 191 to 201, and about 2,000 feet contained 172, 1,160, and 26,000 ppm (parts per million) of chloride, respectively. About 6,100 acre-feet of ground water was pumped from wells and withdrawn from springs for various uses during 1964; of this amount about 4,800 acre-feet was used for irrigation. The total volume of ground water withdrawn and put to beneficial use each year is small compared with the amount that discharges naturally by evapotranspiration and through undeveloped seeps and springs. Much of the natural discharge could be intercepted and put to beneficial use by pumping from wells. Major problems affecting the development of ground water in the area include a) uneven areal distribution of permeable rocks, (b) undesirable chemical quality of the ground water locally in the marine sedimentary rocks, and (c) fine sand entering wells that tap the Troutdale Formation and thereby causing loss of well efficiency and costly wear on pumps and water-supply systems.

Water Supply Paper↗
USGS1967

Developing a state water plan: Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1967

This report is the fourth in a series of annual reports that describe ground-water conditions in Utah. Reports in this series are prepared cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Water Resources and are designed to provide data to enable interested parties such as legislators, administrators, and planners to keep abreast of changing ground-water conditions. This report, like the others (see references, p. 89), contains information on well construction, ground-water withdrawals, water-level changes, and related changes in precipitation and streamflow. It also contains supplementary data that are related to ground-water use in some areas. In reports of this series, the inclusion of such supplementary data as graphs showing chemical quality of water and maps showing water-table configuration is intended only for those years or areas for which applicable data are available and are important to a discussion of changing ground-water conditions. The report includes individual discussions of the most important areas of ground-water withdrawal in the State for the calendar year 1966. Water-level fluctuations, however, are described for the period spring 1966 to spring 1967. Many of the data used in the report were collected by the Geological Survey in cooperation with the Utah State Engineer.

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USGS1965

Selected ground water data in the Eola-Amity Hills area, northern Willamette Valley, Oregon

Occurrence, quality, and availability of ground water differ considerably from place to place in the Eola - Amity Hills area because of the highly diversified geologic and hydrologic conditions. A table relates the geologic situation to the availability of ground water for four areas-- Eola - Amity Hills , east and west valley plains, and Willamette River flood plain. Tables show well and spring records, drillers' logs, and chemical analyses of ground water . The final interpretive report will be published by the U.S. Geological Survey.

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USGS1964

Ground-water reconnaissance in the Burnt River valley, Baker County, Oregon

The Burnt River valley in southern Baker County, Oreg., is underlain by rocks that range in age from pre-Tertiary to Quaternary. The pre-Tertiary rocks consist mainly of argillites, schists, limestones, and intrusive igneous rocks, while the Tertiary rocks consist mainly of felsic and mafic volcanic tuffs, lava flows and breccias, and fluviolacustrine deposits. Quaternary rocks include terrace gravels of Pleistocene and Recent age, and stream-valley alluvium of Recent age. The rock units most widely exposed along the valley are the fluviolacustrine deposits of Miocene and Pliocene(?) age, which extend to depths of as much as a thousand feet below the valley floor, and the pre-Tertiary rocks. Most of the rocks that underlie the valley are of relatively low permeability and yield only small to moderate quantities of water (generally less than 50 gpm) to wells. The fluviolacustrine deposits contain scattered lenses of relatively permeable sand and gravel, hut the unit as a whole is mainly silt and clay of low permeability. Two prospective irrigation wells in the area penetrated these deposits but were abandoned because of insufficient yield. Perhaps the most permeable rock unit in the area is the Columbia River Basalt of Miocene and Pliocene(?) age. It is exposed extensively west of the main valley, but apparently occurs only' as discontinuous lenses beneath the valley floor. Chemical analyses of water from seven wells in the area indicate that the ground waters have relatively large concentrations of dis-. solved mineral constituents. Water from two of the wells had excessive concentrations of boron and high sodium and salinity hazards with respect to use for irrigation. Perhaps the most favorable site for a test irrigation well is about 8 to 10 miles east of Hereford, where the Columbia River Basalt apparently extends beneath, and is intercalated with, the fluviolacustrine deposits.

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USGS1964

Geology and ground-water resources of the Jordan Valley, Utah

The Jordan Valley occupies about 400 square miles in the central part of Salt Lake County in north-central Utah. Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah, is in the northeastern part of the valley. The valley is at the eastern margin of the Basin and range physiographic province, and it is bounded on the northeast, east, south, and west by mountain ranges. The valley is drained by the Jordan River which enters through a water gap in the mountains to the south, flows north, and empties into the Great Salt Lake, which forms the northwestern border of the valley.

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