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Show WELL WASTAGE WARNING GIVEN Utah farmer dependent on artesian arte-sian well for their Irrigation sup-ply sup-ply are losing about one-fourth of their water needlessly, U. S. geological geologi-cal urvey engineers disclosed Monday Mon-day on completion of a survey of a "typical" artesian area southwest of Wood Cross. In Ave square mile there, S00 well have been sunk to tap the underground water supply fed by rain and anow from the near-by mountain. Farmer In this area loat 1800 gallon of water per minute during the spring of 1034 through failure to cap unused wells and to repair those drilled improperly, according to George H. Taylor and H. E. Thomas, U. 8. G. 8. engineera, who conducted the survey In cooperation coopera-tion with the atata engineer' office. of-fice. Conservation of water being wasted wast-ed would increase pressure in neighboring neigh-boring well 28 to 100 per cent, they reported. The Wood Cross area waa selected se-lected a typical of the 2 artesian bailn In the state. Part of the was tare at Woods Cross result from well so drilled that waUr ciaea around the pip when the valve Is ihut off, the engineer en-gineer pointed out. Sinking of an oversiie pipe over the original pipe to fit the channel wall will remedy this. State Engineer T. H. Humpherya estimated in his biennial report that 40,000 acre feet of water baa been lost annually through 4000 leaking welts in Utah. Half of this is being be-ing saved by capping wells. |