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Show Water Table Dropping in Milford Valley to 2 ft, but sections in and immediately adjacent to Enterprise En-terprise were down from 2 to as much as 8 ft. In the Beaver Valley, the area from Greenville to Beaver Beav-er remained about stable, south of Greenville to Adamsville was down 1 to 4 ft; but in Eeaver 3 sections in T29S, R7W were mostly up 2 ft with some sections showing increases increas-es of 4, 6 and 8 ft. With the exception of small areas near .Parowan and a few sections near Kanarraville, the entire Escalante Valley has shown a marked decline the the water table during the past year. Beaver Valley, however, . .. has shown an increase in the underground water table. I These facts were shown in a series of maps made after tests of wells in the areas, by the U S Geological Survey In cooperation with the State Engineer, En-gineer, and just released in Milford. The map of the Milford area shows the water table in most sections in the heart of the pumping area has gone down 3 ft; 18 sections are lower by 2 ft; and the remainder of the ' area, including a total of some 50,000 acres, is down 1 ft. An estimated total of 12,000 acres under cultivation in the Milford Valley pump an allowable allow-able 48,000 acre feet under a Fifth District Court decree. Based on a 15 porosity underground, un-derground, and an average drawdown of 2 acre feet for the area, 15,050 acree feet of water, or about one-third of the amount pumped during the past year, has been from "reserve" "re-serve" supply instead of recharge. re-charge. Water officials, however, point to the extreme drought of the past 10 years and expect ex-pect the underground water table to show an increase again during wet seasons. Greatest drop in the water table was In Lower Escalante Valley near Enterprise, where most of the area was down 1 |