Publications
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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The industrial utility of public water supplies in the Mountain States, 1952
The location of industrial plants is dependent on an ample water supply of suitable quality. Information relating to the chemical characteristics of the water supplies is not only essential to the location of many plants but also is an aid in the manufacture and distribution of many commodities.Public water supplies are utilized extensively as a source of supply for many industrial plants, used ei
Authors
E. W. Lohr, C. S. Howard, R.T. Kiser, J. D. Hem, H. A. Swenson
Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Green River in Utah and Colorado
The Green River, rising in Wyoming and draining high mountains in that state, northeast Utah and northwest Colorado, is a major tributary of the Colorado River. In the late summer, after the snow has melted from these mountains, the flow in the Green River reaches its minimum for the year. At that time a large proportion of the water in the river is returned to the atmosphere by evaporation and tr
Authors
H. E. Thomas
Estimated use of water in the United States - 1950
An estimated 170,000 million gallons of water was withdrawn from the ground, lakes, or streams each day on the average during 1950 and used on the farms and in the homes, factories, and business establishments of the United States. An additional 1,100,000 million gallons per day was used to generate hydro-power. Water power is the largest user of water; however, irrigation and industry also are la
Authors
Kenneth Allen MacKichan
The water situation in the United States with special reference to ground water
This report constitutes appendixes B and C of a report prepared in April 1950 by the Geological Survey at the request of the President’s Water Resources Policy Commission. The full report was entitled "Water facts in relation to a national water-resources policy.” The brief text, entitled "Water in relation to the national economy,” and appendix A, entitled "A summary of the water situation in th
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Charles Lee McGuinness
Ground water in the Escalante Valley, Beaver, Iron, and Washington Counties, Utah
Escalante Valley in southwestern Utah is one of the largest and most important ground-water areas of the State, with 1,300 square miles of arid land and an additional 1,500 square miles in its tributary drainage basin. Ground water is obtained from gravel and sand beds in the unconsolidated valley fill. In 1950 more irrigation wells were pumped than in any other basin of Utah, and their total pump
Authors
Philip F. Fix, W.B. Nelson, B. E. Lofgren, R.G. Butler
Progress report on ground-water investigation in Ashley Valley, Uintah County, Utah
No abstract available.
Authors
W.B. Nelson, B. E. Lofgren
Water-supply investigation at Navajo Mountain, Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, Utah
No abstract available.
Authors
S.C. Brown, L.C. Halpenny, H.A. Whitcomb
Annual runoff in the United States
The water that drains from the land into creeks and rivers is called runoff. Supplying many of our basic human needs for water, runoff occurs chiefly as a residual of rainfall after Nature’s take – that is, after the persistent demands of evaporation from land and transpiration from vegetation have been supplied.
Authors
Walter Basil Langbein
Ground water in the Jordan Valley, Utah
The Jordan Valley is a small part of a larger area that during the glacial epoch was covered by an ancient lake known as Lake Bonneville. The Jordan River, the natural drainage path from Utah Lake, flows northward through the center of the valley and empties into Great Salt Lake. The Jordan Valley is a rockbottomed valley in which a great thickness of clay, silt, sand, and gravel has been laid dow
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G.H. Taylor, R.M. Leggette
Ground water in the East Shore area, Utah. Part I. Bountiful District, Davis County
The Bountiful district in Davis County, Utah, less than 10 miles from the heart of Salt Lake City, is rapidly becoming an integral part of the metropolitan area of Salt Lake City. It cannot achieve the development that its location merits unless the present water supplies are increased. The district is a fertile agricultural area favorably situated between the largest cities in the intermountain a
Authors
H. E. Thomas, W.B. Nelson
Index to river surveys made by the United States Geological Survey and other agencies, revised to July 1, 1947
The descriptive list of surveys of rivers in the United States issued by the United States Geological Survey in 1926 as Water-Supply Paper 558 comprised surveys by the Geological Survey and other Federal bureaus and by State, semiofficial, and private agencies. Since then many additional river surveys, most of them now available in published sheets, have been completed by the Geological Survey, an
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Benjamin E. Jones, Randolph Olaf Helland