Hydrology and hydrogeology of Navajo Lake, Kane County, Utah

Abstract

Introduction.______________________________________ Hydrogeography of Navajo Lake and environs-____ Development of the Navajo Lake problem_________ Purpose and scope of study._____________________ Hydrology _________________________________________ Stream-gaging stations_________________________ Records of Navajo Lake.._______________________ Test procedure-________________________________ Navajo Sinks____________________________ Duck Creek Sinks._________________________ Water quality._________________________________ Variations observed in 1954-58 and frequency of occurrences of high and low years_______________ Conclusions based on data collected in 1954-58_-_ Relation of Navajo Lake to Cascade and Duck Creek springs.___________________________ Other sources of water in major springs______ Water regimen and supply of Navajo Lake_____

Cenozoic Stratigraphy of Southwestern High Plateaus of Utah

“…Post-basalt movement on the fault has been at least 100 m (Gregory, 1950, p. 102;Thomas and Taylor, 1946, p. 32). Some basalt flows on the high Markagunt Plateau, mapped in part by Gregory (1949, p. 992;1950, p. 100-101), Threet (1963a), and Wilson and Thomas (1964) have not been revegetated and are doubtless of Holocene age.…”

“…Rocks equivalent to those designated by us as the younger basalt flows have been mapped in the Tushar Mountains (Callaghan, 1939;Callaghan andParker, 1962a, 1962b), the central Sevier Plateau (Willard and Callaghan, 1962), the eastern High Plateaus (Williams and Hackman, 1971;Hackman and Wyant, 1973), and the southern High Plateaus (Gregory, 1949(Gregory, , 1950(Gregory, , 1951Pillmore, 1956;Threet, 1963b;Wilson and Thomas, 1964;Cashion, 1961Cashion, , 1967Averitt;1962Averitt and Threet, 1973). Within the present study area, younger basalt flows have been mapped locally in the southern Sevier Plateau (Rowley, 1968), Markagunt Plateau (Iivari, 1969, and northern Black Mountains (Erickson andDasch, 1963, 1968).…”

Ground-water conditions and geologic reconnaissance of the Upper Sevier River basin, Utah

“…Previous hydrologic studies in the upper Sevier Rivei' basin by the U.S. Geological Survey resulted in reports on the surface-water resources of the Sevier Lake basin (Woolley, 1947), the ground-water resources of the Bryce Canyon National Park area (Marine, 1963), and the hydrology and hydrogeology of Navajo Lake (Wilson and Thomas, 1964). The Geological Survey has collected streamflow records in the basin since 1911 and has measured ground-water levels in the basin since 1935.…”

“…This water discharges southward from Cascade Spring in the NE^SE^SEi^ sec. 17, T. 38 S., R. 8 W., in the Virgin River basin at a rate of about 1,000-2,000 acre-feet annually (Wilson and Thomas, 1964). Some ground water also seeps through bedrock eastward into the Paria River drainage from the Paunsaugunt Plateau (Marine, 1963, p. 461-463).…”

Geological Survey research 1980

“…Lava extrusion combined with faulting has led to interruptions and readjustments of drainage, as at Panguitch Lake where drainage now is diverted from easterly to northerly. Elsewhere, flows into the Duck Creek drainage have formed Navajo Lake and diverted at least part of its outflow from Sevier River interior drainage to the Virgin River drainage basin (Wilson and Thomas, 1964).…”