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Show Report Shows 70 Well Water Use Up Over 1969 Well owners in Utah used an estimated 680,000 acre-feet of water from wells in 1970, according ac-cording to the eighth in a series ser-ies of annual reports on ground water conditions. Reports in the series are prepared pre-pared cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Water Resources, and they provide current ground-water information to water users, legislators, administrators, admin-istrators, planners, and other interested parties in the State. The estimated total withdrawal with-drawal of water from wells in Utah in 1970 was 680,000 acre feet or about 10,000 acre-feet more than was reported for 1969. Withdrawal for irrigation increased by 6,000 acre-feet, for industry decreased by 13,600 acre-feet, for public supply increased in-creased by 16,100 acre-feet, and for domestic and stock increased increas-ed by 400 acre-feet. Of the significant changes, the increase for irrigation was mainly the result of decreased streamflow available for irrigation irri-gation in some areas and, an increase in the number of new irrigation wells put into use in 1970 in other areas; the decrease de-crease for industry was mainly main-ly the result of the discontinuance discontin-uance of pumping for mine drainage in the Beryl-Enterprise district of Escalante Valley; Val-ley; 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 in-creased 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 Feder-al Building, and the Utah Division Di-vision of Water Resources, 435 State Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
