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Show I ; Report on Ground-Water Status Shows Wells Took 680,000 flc.-Ft. i Well owners in Utah used an estimated 680,000 acre-feet of water from wells in 1970, ac cording to the eighth in a series t of annual reports on ground- i water conditions. Reports in the series are prepared cooper- i atively by the VS. Geological 1 Survey and the Utah Division of ' Water Resources, and they pro vide current ground-water in-' in-' formation to water users, legis lators, administrators, planners, plan-ners, and other interested i parties in the State, i The estimated total with drawal of water from wells in Utah in 1970 was 680,000 acre-feet, acre-feet, or about 10,000 acre-feet 1 more than was reported for 1969. Withdrawal for irrigation 1 increased by 6,000 acre-feet, 1 for industry decreased by 13,600 acre-feet, for public supply in- , creased by 16,100 acre-feet, and i for domestic and stock increas ed by 400 acre-feet, i Of the significant changes, i the increase for irrigation was mainly the result of decreased streamflow available for irrigation ir-rigation in some areas and, an increase in the number of new irrigation wells put into use in 1970 in other areas; the decrease for industry was mainly the result of the discontinuance dis-continuance of pumpingfor mine drainage in the Beryl-Enterprise district of Escalante Valley; the increase for public supply was mainly the result of increased demands of an expanded ex-panded population in some of the heavily populated areas. Water levels in observation wells generally declined in the State from March 1970 to March 1971 as a result of increased withdrawals from wells in 1970 compared to 1969. "Ground-Water Conditions in Utah, Spring of 1971," by R. M. Cordova and others, is available avail-able at the office of the U.S. Geological Survey, 8002 Federal Fed-eral Building, and the Utah Division Div-ision of Water Resources, 435 State Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
