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Show 56 believed to be small ( Price and Bolke, 1970). Quality of Groundwater- Groundwater in the central part of the Sink Valley area contains 2,000- 3,000 mg/ 1 dissolved solids. In the northern and eastern parts of the area, the groundwater contains from 3,000 to more than 14,000 mg/ 1 dissolved solids. Price and Bolke ( 1970) state that groundwater in this area is unsuitable for irrigation or human consumption. Note: No data is available on the subsurface flow of groundwater from the Great Salt Lake Desert into Great Salt Lake in the area between Lakeside and Kelton. Curlew Valley Groundwater Curlew Valley is bounded on the west by the Raft River Mountains in Utah and by the Black Pine Mountains in Idaho, on the north by the Sublett Range and Deep Creek Mountains in Idaho, and on the east by Blue Spring Hills and North Promontory Mountains in Idaho and the Hansel Mountains in Utah. Kelton and Locomotive Springs are located in the southern part of Curlew Valley. Bolke and Price ( 1969) state that the bottom part of the valley fill is of low permeability, consisting of tightly- bedded, predominantly tuffaceous continental sedimentary rocks and assorted volcanic rocks of the late Tertiary Salt Lake Formation. Overlying the Tertiary rocks are younger alluvial and lacustrine deposits and intercalated volcanic rocks of Tertiary and Quaternary age which form the main groundwater reservoir in Curlew Valley. Aquifers within the Tertiary and Quaternary deposits yield several hundred to several thousand gallons of water per minute to |