Ground Water

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: 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: 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 Trevor H. Schlossnagle, Janae Wallace, and Nathan Payne This study provides land-use planners with science-based tools for approving new development in a manner that will protect groundwater quality in the communities of Newcastle, Kanarraville, Summit, and Paragonah. Other Information:...

By: W. E. Mulvey and W. R. Lund Surficial deposits in the Black Rock Desert of west-central Utah, in an area encompassing 12 7.5-minute topographic quadrangles, were mapped at a scale of 1:100,000. The Black Rock Desert is the southern...

By: Tyler Knudsen, Paul Inkenbrandt, William Lund, Mike Lowe, and Steve BowmanThis 116-page report presents the results of an investigation by the Utah Geological Survey of land subsidence and earth fissures in Cedar Valley, Iron County, Utah. Basin-fill sediments of...

By: Lucy JordanThis 53-page report details aquifer parameter estimation in and near Cedar Valley, west of Utah Lake and the Lake Mountains, in Utah County, Utah. The UGS conducted five aquifer tests on the two most important aquifers in the...

By: S. Kirby This report describes the nongeothermal hydrogeologic system of the Cove Creek basin and an adjoining part of the Beaver River basin north of Milford, in Millard and Beaver Counties, Utah. The groundwater system in the study area...

By: M. Lowe, J. Wallace, S. M. Kirby, and C. E. Bishop Contains a 40-page report with an 83-page appendix and 12 maps that address ground-water conditions in Moab-Spanish Valley’s valley-fill aquifer and provide recommendations for water-resource management and land-use...

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: H. A. Hurlow Cedar Valley is a Quaternary-Tertiary-age structural basin in the Utah Lake hydrologic basin. Increased development of ground water due to population increases led to this study of the basin, its geology, and its hydrology and ground-water...

By: M. Lowe and J. Wallace Cedar Valley in southwestern Utah is experiencing an increase in residential development, much of which uses septic tank soil-absorption systems for wastewater disposal. Most of this development is taking place on unconsolidated basin-fill deposits,...

By: UGS Staff Two out-of-print geologic and mineral assessment reports on Piute and Garfield Counties. Texts with plates are in one file for easy viewing; plates are a higher resolution and formatted for easy plotting are in separate files. Data...

By: Paul Inkenbrandt, Richard Emerson, Janae Wallace, J. Lucy Jordan, and Stefan KirbyIn cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, the Utah Geological Survey mapped springs and groundwater dependent ecosystems on the Wasatch Plateau. Using remote sensing, GIS, and field checking,...

By: Janae Wallace, Paul Inkenbrandt, and Mike Lowe Contains a 15-page report with a 79-page appendices and 3 maps at 1:24,000 and 1:50,000 scale, in easily readable PDF format, that address groundwater quality in the east shore area of Davis...

By: J. Wallace and M. Lowe Contains a report (15 pages + 64-page appendix) and three plates (maps at 1:75,000 scale), all, that address ground-water quality in Salt Lake Valley?s basin-fill aquifer and provide recommendations for water-resource management and land-use...

By: F. X. Ashland, R. E. Giraud, G. N. McDonald, and A. H. Elliott The Green Pond landslide is a large historically active landslide crossed by SR-226 in Weber County, Utah. The landslide is elongate, somewhat irregularly shaped, about 7800...

By: D. Price and L. Conroy This is one of a series of map reports compiled by the USGS and UGS describing the geology and related natural resources and hazards of the densely populated Wasatch Front of Utah. This report...

By: D. Price This is one of a series of map reports compiled by the USGS and UGS describing the geology and related natural resources and hazards of the densely populated Wasatch Front of Utah. This report defines in a...

By: S. Hecker and K. M. Harty, compilers Many population centers in the state are in areas susceptible to shallow ground-water problems. Rising water tables in recent years have caused flooding in basements, storage tanks, underground utilities, waste dumps, and...