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Show Underground Water Survey In This State Utah's underground water basins ba-sins produced a total of 194,655 acre foot of water during the 1940 season, exclusive of Sanpete county, coun-ty, an amount equal to the total to-tal capacity of the Echo, Moon Lake, East Canyon, Hyrum, Gunnison Gun-nison and Rocky Ford reservoirs combined. The information is contained in a report issued Friday at the office of-fice of State Engineer T. H. Humpherys. The Sanpete county ' area was not included in the state 6urvey. This resource is valued at approximately ap-proximately $17,000,000, based on the construction costs of recently developed surface projects. Of the total output, 168,235 acre feet were put to" beneficial use, and 26,420 acre feet were wasted. The total waste, however, was reduced by 8000 acre feet from the 1938 lig-ure lig-ure the report shows. Water tables throughout the state are generally lower than at the same time last year. This condition is due, the report states, to subnormal precipitation and excessive ex-cessive diversion because of the insufficient in-sufficient surface supply last summer. sum-mer. A project for the artificial priming prim-ing of the Centerville and Bountiful Bounti-ful areas in Davis county is resulting re-sulting in arising of the water table there. During the high water wa-ter season the water from the Dewel Creek is permitted to sink into the land and finds its way into the underground chanels. It is used later in the season for irri-i' irri-i' gation by diversion through wells located in the area. A natural rise has been evidenced evi-denced in parts of Weber and Box Elder counties as a result of the Pine View reservoir project. A saving of approximately 15,000 acre feet of water can yet be accomplished ac-complished through repair of wrells, it is estimated. An annual saving of 30,000 acre feet has already al-ready bean realized through a program of education and well repair re-pair sponsored by the state . department de-partment since passage of the un-i un-i derground water law in 1935, according ac-cording to the report. In the Cache area the Tinder-ground Tinder-ground water table is generally lower than last year at this time. The report shows that more than a quarter of the underground supply drawn in Cache county the if ' past year was wasted. The greater proportion of waste occurred in the Logan; basin where.. 5.000-.. of .the. 16,900 acre leet drawn were not put, to beneficial use. The waste recorded re-corded exceeded that of 1938 by 100 acre feet, which is contrary to the trend of the state as a whole. The county's total output was 19,210 acre feet for the year, with 10,480 used for irrigation and 2950 for domestic and miscellaneous miscellane-ous purposes. |