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The majority of publications in this section address water resources in Utah or in bordering states. Some of the publications are included because one or more of the authors work at the Utah Water Science Center but have provided expertise to studies in other geographic areas.

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Ground-water data for the Beryl-Enterprise area, Escalante Desert, Utah Ground-water data for the Beryl-Enterprise area, Escalante Desert, Utah

This report contains a compilation of selected ground-water data for the Beryl-Enterprise area, Iron and Washington Counties, Utah. The records of the wells include such information as driller's logs, yield, drawdown, use, and temperature of the well water. There are also records of water levels in selected wells for the period 1973-79, chemical analyses of ground water, records of...
Authors
R. W. Mower

Digital-computer model of the principal ground-water reservoir in Beryl-Enterprise area, Escalante Desert, Utah Digital-computer model of the principal ground-water reservoir in Beryl-Enterprise area, Escalante Desert, Utah

The computer model presented in this report was used to simulate the principal ground-water reservoir in the Beryl-Enterprise area, Escalante Desert, Beaver, Iron, and Washington Counties, Utah (Mower, 1981). The details of the formulation of the model, testing of its validity, and the results of predictions are discussed in the cited report. This report was prepared as part of a...
Authors
R. W. Mower, Scott D. Bartholoma

Preliminary hydrologic evaluation of the North Horn Mountain coal-resource area, Utah Preliminary hydrologic evaluation of the North Horn Mountain coal-resource area, Utah

North Horn Mountain is part of a deeply dissected plateau in central Utah which is characterized by deep, narrow, steep-walled canyons with local relief of more than 1,000 feet. Geologic units exposed in the North Horn Mountain area range in age from Late Cretaceous to Holocene and contain two mineable seams of Cretaceous coal. The area is in the drainage basin of the San Rafael River...
Authors
M.J. Graham, John E. Tooley, Don Price

Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Wasatch Plateau-Book Cliffs coal-fields area, Utah Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Wasatch Plateau-Book Cliffs coal-fields area, Utah

Data obtained during a hydrologic reconnaissance in 1975-77 in the Wasatch Plateau-Book Cliffs coal-fields area of Utah were correlated with existing long-term data. Maps were prepared showing average precipitation, average streamflow, stream temperature, ground- and surface-water quality, sediment yield, and geology. Recommendations were made for additional study and suggested...
Authors
Kidd M. Waddell, P. Kay Contratto, C. T. Sumsion, John R. Butler

Geochemistry of spring water, southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado Geochemistry of spring water, southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado

The chemical quality of water in the southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado, is important to the future development of the abundant oil-shale resources of the area. This report examines the observed changes in chemistry as water circulates in both shallow and deep ground-water systems. Mass-balance and mass- transfer calculations are used to define reactions that simulate the...
Authors
Briant A. Kimball

Developing a state water plan: Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1980 Developing a state water plan: Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1980

This is the seventeenth in a series of annual reports that describe ground-water conditions in Utah. Reports in this series, prepared cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Water Resources, provide data to enable interested parties to keep abreast of changing ground-water conditions. This report, like the others in the series, contains information on well...
Authors
L. R. Herbert, R. B. Garrett, E.C. Gerhart, Judy I. Steiger, Cynthia L. Appel, V.L. Jensen, Michael Enright, S.K. Dubois, D. C. Emett, A.I. Guhman, L.J. Neff, L.G. Sultz, G. W. Sandberg

Ground-water conditions in the upper Virgin River and Kanab Creek basins area, Utah, with emphasis on the Navajo Sandstone Ground-water conditions in the upper Virgin River and Kanab Creek basins area, Utah, with emphasis on the Navajo Sandstone

The upper Virgin River and Kanab Creek basins area occupies parts of Iron, Kane, and Washington Counties in south-central Utah. It includes about 1,300 square miles (3,370 square kilometers) in the upper Virgin River basin and about 650 square miles (1,680 square kilometers) in the upper Kanab Creek basin. The area is sparsely populated with Kanab (population about 1,400 in 1975) being...
Authors
R.M. Cordova

Utah water use data: Public water supplies, 1960-1978 Utah water use data: Public water supplies, 1960-1978

This report was prepared as a part of the Statewide cooperative water-resources investigation program administered jointly by the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Rights and the United States Geological Survey. The program is conducted to meet the water administration and water-resources data needs of the State, as well as the water information needs of many units...
Authors
David Mills, Ronald Jibson, James Riley, David Hooper, Richard Schwarting

Results of hydraulic tests in wells DOE-1, 2, 3, Salt Valley, Grand County, Utah Results of hydraulic tests in wells DOE-1, 2, 3, Salt Valley, Grand County, Utah

Three exploratory wells were drilled for geological, geophysical, and hydrological purposes in Salt Valley, Grand County, Utah. Cap rock, salt, and interbeds of the Paradox Member of the Hermosa Formation of Middle Pennsylvanian age were penetrated. The observed depth below land surface of the cap rock-salt interface ranges from 163 meters (m) to 191 meters. Approximately the upper 100...
Authors
F. Eugene Rush, I. M. Hart, M.S. Whitfield, T.F. Giles, T. E. D’Epagnier

Bibliography of U.S. Geological Survey water-resources reports for Utah Bibliography of U.S. Geological Survey water-resources reports for Utah

This bibliography contains a complete listing to June 30, 1980, of reports relating to the water resources of Utah prepared by personnel of the U.S. Geological Survey. Discussions of the related subjects of geology, hydrology, and chemical quality of the water are included in many of the reports. The reports were, for the most part, prepared by personnel assigned to the Water Resources...
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