Water

by Miles McCoy-Sulentic, Diane Menuz, Denise Culver, and Elisabeth Stimmel This field guide is an easy-to-use plant identification resource for both amateur and experienced natural resource professionals working in the Central Basin and Range ecoregion of Utah. The field guide...

By: H. H. Doelling Box Elder County is situated in the northwest corner of Utah bordering with Idaho on the north, Nevada on the west, Tooele and Weber counties on the south and Cache County on the east. It comprises...

By: R. W. Gloyn, D. E. Tabet, B. T. Tripp, C. E. Bishop, C. D. Morgan, J. W. Gwynn, and R. E. BlackettThe Utah Geological Survey has collected and evaluated information on the known and potential energy, mineral, and ground-water...

By: R. W. Gloyn, C. D. Morgan, D. E. Tabet, R. E. Blackett, B. T. Tripp, and M. LoweThe Utah Geological Survey has summarized information on the known and potential mineral and energy resources in San Juan County. The compilation...

The UGS presents this Geofluids of Utah guidebook, which has papers highlighting key fields in the study of geofluids. This guidebook features four broad subjects in the realm of geofluids: (1) potable water, (2) geothermal energy, (3) biomarkers and hydrocarbons,...

By: Hugh A. Hurlow, Paul C. Inkenbrandt, and Trevor H. Schlossnagle Summary This report summarizes the findings of a hydrogeologic study of Juab Valley in eastern Juab County, Utah, conducted in 2015–20 by the Utah Geological Survey (UGS). The principal work...

By: F. X. Ashland, C. E. Bishop, M. Lowe, and B. H. Mayes, editors Urbanization of parts of the Snyderville basin has been accompanied by an increasing demand to develop the area?s ground-water resources. Ground water is present in shallow...

By: S. M. Kirby Recent residential growth in unincorporated portions of San Juan County north and east of Blanding utilizes ground water derived primarily from sandstone of the undivided Dakota and Burro Canyon Formations for culinary water. The primary source...

By: W. R. Lund, C. B. DuRoss, S. M. Kirby, G. N. McDonald, G. Hunt, and G. S. Vice Contains a 30-page report and 37-photo appendix of an investigation by the Utah Geological Survey of five recently discovered earth fissures...

By: Paul InkenbrandtRound Valley is a small valley in the eastern Wasatch Range in north-central Utah, south of Heber City and east of Deer Creek Reservoir in Wasatch County. This hydrogeologic study of Round Valley by the Utah Geological Survey...

By: B. N. Kaliser Twenty-four counties in Utah were surveyed in 1983-84 to compile this summary of known geological events related to the 1983 wet year. It is hoped that this summary and the one by Davis will provide a...

By: M. Lowe and I. D. Sanderson The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recommended that states develop Pesticide Management Plans for four agricultural chemicals - alachlor, atrazine, metolachlor, and simazine - used in Utah as herbicides in the production of...

by Peter Goodwin and Rebecca Molinari Phragmites threaten Great Salt Lake wetlands by readily displacing desirable native vegetation, degrading habitats, and diverting water from the lake and surrounding wetlands through increased evapotranspiration water loss. The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) developed...

by Hugh A. Hurlow, Rebecca Molinari, Paul C. Inkenbrandt, and J. Lucy Jordan The Utah Geological Survey conducted a regional groundwater-level campaign during 2020 in west-central Utah and in parts of east-central Nevada to document changes in groundwater levels from...

By: C. T. Sumsion The Spanish Valley area covers about 144 square miles on the western slopes of the La Sal Mountains in southeastern Utah; within it, Spanish Valley comprises about 18 square miles. Altitudes of land surface within the...

By: David W. Clark, Cynthia L. Appel, Patrick M. Lambert, and Robert L. Puryear The ground-water resources in the East Shore area of Great Salt Lake, Utah, were studied to better define the ground-water system; to document changes in ground-water...

A hydrologic investigation of Cache Valley was done to better understand the ground-water system in unconsolidated basin-fill deposits and the interaction between ground water and surface water. Ground-water recharge occurs by infiltration of precipitation and unconsumed irrigation water, seepage from...

Ground-water resources in the Bountiful area, Utah, were studied to document changes in ground-water conditions and to simulate the effects of increased ground-water withdrawals and changes in recharge. The aquifer system is in basin-fill deposits and is primarily a confined...

By: C.B. Burden & Others This is the forty-fourth in a series of annual reports that describe ground-water conditions in Utah. Reports in this series, published cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division...

By: Diane Menuz and Rebekah Downard Wetlands in Utah are regulated primarily by the federal government under the Clean Water Act (CWA), which requires mitigation to replace ecological services that are lost to permitted activities. This report explores the potential...

By: Peter Goodwin and Elisabeth Stimmel This report summarizes a recently completed mapping project along the Provo River that covers nearly 33,800 acres of Wasatch and Summit Counties and includes parts of Heber City, Midway, Francis, and Woodland. This project...

By: Peter Goodwin The Scott and Norma Matheson Wetlands Preserve (the Preserve) occupies nearly 900 acres between the Colorado River and the city of Moab, Utah, and encompasses an extensive floodplain-wetland complex that provides several unique functions in the arid west...