Water resources of the northern Uinta Basin area, Utah and Colorado, with special emphasis on ground-water supply

Ground-water flow in the Duchesne River-Uinta aquifer, Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado

“…Ground-water recharge to the Duchesne RiverUinta aquifer is derived from precipitation and from seepage from canals and streams, and percolation losses from irrigated lands (Price and Miller, 1975;and Hood and Fields, 1978). However, the recharge is assumed to occur only in areas where water-table conditions exist.…”

“…The method accounts for not only the amount of recharge resulting from direct percolation of precipitation but also for recharge from unlined canals and streams. Ground-water recharge from percolation losses from irrigated lands were combined with irrigation return flow by Hood and Fields (1978). Price and Miller (1975) and Hood and Fields (1978) assumed that as average annual precipitation increases, so does the percent of average annual precipitation that recharges the ground water.…”

“…A percentage of the rainfall and melting snow percolates directly into the underlying sedimentary rocks as does water from streams and canals. Price and Miller (1975) and Hood and Fields (1978) estimated ground-water recharge in the Uinta Basin using a method that assumed recharge is a percentage of average annual precipitation. The method takes into account geology and physiography as well as the volume, time, and areal distribution of precipitation.…”

“…Ground water in the aquifer exists under a complex system of shallow water-table, perched, and deep artesian conditions. Hydrologic studies previously have been done on parts of the Duchesne River-Uinta aquifer (Price and Miller, 1975;Hood, 1976;and Hood and Fields, 1978), but the lateral boundaries of these studies did not coincide with the lateral boundaries of the aquifer. Internal boundaries of the aquifer, such as the Duch- …”

Potential hydrologic impacts of a tar-sand industry in 11 special tar sand areas in eastern Utah

“…Campbell and Ritzma (1979), Cashion (1967), Cashion and Donnell (1974), Holmes (1979Holmes ( , 1980, Holmes and Kimball (1983), Hood (1976Hood ( , 1977, Hood and Danielson (1981), Hood and Fields (1978), Hood and Patterson (1982), Osterwald and others (1981), and Price and Miller (1975) contain information on geology and ground-water characteristics. Fields (1975), Jurado and Fields (1978), Lindskov and Kimball (1982), Lines and others (1983), Mundorff (1972Mundorff ( , 1977Mundorff ( , 1979, Mundorff and Thompson (1982), Waddell (1976), and Waddell and others (1981) contain hydrologic information on the Colorado, Dirty Devil, Duchesne, Green, Price, San Rafael, Uinta, and White Rivers and other smaller streams.…”