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Show Report of Underground Water Table Indicates Continued Low-level Trend In a semi-annual report issued !r ly the United States Department - if the Interior. Geological Sur-tvey Sur-tvey in cooperation with the Utah State Engineer, ground water lev-els lev-els in Utah during the first six anonths of the 1961 water year (Oct 1. 1960 to Mar. 31, 1961) 'were below average or reached inew lows in all 16 wells for 'which monHi-end records are imade. Four wells in Iron County are .'included in the report. Two are located In Cedar City, one in Beryl and the fourth in Para-jjonah. Para-jjonah. During the report period three wells maintained below-average water levels, three wells maintained main-tained below-average or reached new record low water levels during dur-ing some months, an ten wells established record-lny water levels lev-els for each month '.wo of the 16 wells recorded all-time record-low water levels, both in October. Oc-tober. Cedar City "R" Well was one of the two wells which recorded all-time all-time record -low levels. The reduced water level trend that began in the early 1950s at the Beryl and the two Cedar City wells were contiuned over the period and the well at Paragon-ah Paragon-ah continued a trend of record-low record-low water levels established during dur-ing the preceding water year. The trend of below-average and record-low water levels that began before or during the preceding pre-ceding water year indicates the widespread effects of continued below-normal precipitation coupled coup-led with increased pumping. Water Wa-ter levels should not be expected to rise significantly in most wells until after an appreciable period of normal or above-normal precipitation. pre-cipitation. The end-of-December water levels le-vels in I960 in the wells in Fillmore, Fill-more, Milford, Beryl, and Cedar) City "R" wells were at an all-time all-time low for end-of-Docember. These long-term trends indicate that more water is withdrawn from the ground-water reservoirs each year than is replenished by recharge. |
