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Show County Water Situation Studied at Meet The water situation In Iron County was the subject discussed at the annual meeting of the Iron County Water Users Association this year according to Wallace SJoblom, County Agent and Secretary Sec-retary of the Association. Clifton Johnson, Water Commissioner Com-missioner for the Milford, Es-calante Es-calante Valleys and representative representa-tive of the State Engineer's Office Of-fice in this aiea, gave a very interesting in-teresting report on the water run-off and water pumped in the three areas of the county. He estimated the run-off in the Cedar Ce-dar Valley area at 35,000 acre-feec acre-feec per year. The Parowan Valley Val-ley estimate is 31.00Q acre-feet, and the Beryl-Enterprise Valley area 13,000 acre-feet. The county total therefore Is estimated at 79,000 acre-feet This surface runoff, run-off, of course, contributes to the under-ground supply. He stated that the estimated amount of water pumped in the county in 1959 was 91,000 acre-feet, which is the equivalent of a 250 cfs. stream running for six months, or enough to fill the Minersville reservoir four times. The area break-down was given as fol-lows: fol-lows: Parowan Valley. 14.000 acre-feet; Cedar Valley 18,000 acre-feet; Beryl-Enterprise area Including Lund, 59,000 acre-feet. Only about 80 percent of the 317' wells in the county are pumped each year, but the total number num-ber have a 225,000 gallons per minute pumping capacity or approximately ap-proximately 500 cfs. Woodard Sandberg, Hydrolie Engineer for the U. S. Geological Survey, showed iiydrographs and water maps to show what is hap-Tening hap-Tening to the under-ground wa-er wa-er table in the Milford and Ce 'ar Valleys. Studies on Escalantc Valley weren't completed in time to present at the meeting. He stated that the table in the Milford Mil-ford Valley has declined from less than 5-feet in areas of the low pumping to as high as 18.5 feet in heavily pumped areas. The draw-down In one well being be-ing checked Is 25 feet lower in the fall than In the spring wherr pumping begins. Mr. Sandberg-reported Sandberg-reported that In the Cedar Valley-wells Valley-wells In the heavlTy pumped' area had declined more than 15 feet In the past seven years with one showing a decline of 19.7" feet One well being studied has shown a difference of 18 feet from the spring until fall at the-end the-end of the pumping season. One well which a recording device is; being used has shown a 32 foot decline in the past 20 years-Warren years-Warren Bulloch and Grant Hunter were re-eJ?cted as Presi---nt and VP of the association. |