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Colorado Plateaus aquifers

Detailed Description

The Colorado Plateaus aquifers underlie an area of more than 100,000 square miles. Although the quantity and chemical quality of water in the Colorado Plateaus aquifers are extremely variable, much of the and in this sparsely populated region is underlain by rocks that contain aquifers capable of yielding usable quantities of water of a quality suitable for most agricultural and domestic use.

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