Utah PROJECTS

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  • Great Basin Ground Water Availability
  • Stream Stats
  • Great Salt Lake Nutrient Cycling
  • Salinity Load Assessment

• NAWQA Program
  • Great Salt Lake Basins

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USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.

Utah Water-Resources Projects

The Utah Water Science Center conducts hydrologic projects that address a wide variety of water-resources issues, including water supply, ground-water contamination, nutrient loading in streams, effects of land use on water quality, and basic hydrologic data collection. This page lists the major projects currently underway.

National and International

• National Water Quality Assessment - Great Salt Lake Basin
• National Watershed Boundary Delineation

Statewide or Regional

• Great Basin Ground Water Availability
• Utah Ground Water Data Program
• Mapping Land Disturbance from Energy Development
• Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Metals and Hard-Rock Mining
• Colorado Plateau Aquatic Invertebrates Monitoring Protocols
• Freshwater and anchaialine pool habitats, Pacific Islands
• Salton Sea Bathymetry
• Statewide Water Use in Utah
• Stream Stats - Streamflow statistics for ungaged streams
• Surface Water Data Program
• Water Quality Data Program
• Watershed-scale Assessment of Salinity Loads in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Northern Utah

• Great Salt Lake Nutrient and Trace Element Cycling
• Ground-water assessment in northeastern Tooele Valley
• Jordan River Hydraulic Assessment
• Northern Utah Valley Ground-water Optimization Simulations
• Rush Valley Hydrologic Assessment
• Salinty Investigation Manila, UT
• Stream Depletion - Uinta River near Roosevelt, UT
• Oquirrh Mountains, Utah: Surface and Ground-Water Monitoring Program

Southern Utah

• Fry Canyon Remediation
• Hanksville Flood Plain Study
• Mammoth Spring Hydrology
• Navajo Sandstone Recharge Study
• Pah Tempe Springs Salinity Investigation
• White Mesa Uranium Investigation