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Show 57 individual large- diameter wells, which are located west of Snowville and in the vicinity of Kelton ( Bolke and Price, 1969). Discharge to the Great Salt Lake-- Bolke and Price ( 1969) state that some groundwater discharges directly into the Lake from Curlew Valley as diffuse seepage beneath the Lake surface. The quantity of seepage is not determined but is assumed to be negligible compared to the 34,000 acre- feet of groundwater discharged by evapotranspiration in the area north of the Lake. Chemical Quality of Groundwater-- Groundwater near the Idaho- Utah line has dissolved solids ranging from 200 to 2,600 mg/ 1. Near Kelton, groundwater has 450 to 750 mg/ 1. Water discharged from Locomotive Springs has 3,000 to 4,000 mg/ 1. Water in Storage-- Bolke and Price note ( 1969) that about 11,000 acre- feet of water is discharged annually at the margin of Great Salt Lake in Curlew Valley and that some of this water might be salvaged for use. Hansel Valley and Northern Rozel Flat Groundwater The Hansel Valley- northern Rozel Flat Area is bounded on the west by the Hansel Mountains, on the north by low hills near highway 80- N, and on the east by the North Promontory Mountains. Alluvial deposits of Late(?) Pliocene and Pleistocene age, together with sands of the Tertiary Salt Lake Formation, function as the principal groundwater reservoir in northern Hansel Valley and as part of the groundwater reservoir in southern Hansel Valley and northern Rozel Flat ( Hood, 1971). These alluvial deposits are overlain by Lake- bottom deposits consisting chiefly of clay, which inhibits recharge to the underlying alluvial deposits. |
