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This USGS data release consists of the synthetic stream network and associated catchments used to develop spatially referenced regressions on watershed attributes (SPARROW) model of dissolved-solids sources and transport in the Upper Colorado River Basin as well as geology and selected Basin Characterization Model (BCM) data used as input to the model.
Types: Citation;
Tags: Actual Evapotranspiration,
Arizona,
Catchment,
Climatic Water Deficit,
Colorado, All tags...
Dissolved-solids model,
Excess Water,
Geologic Formation,
Geology,
Groundwater Recharge,
Hydrologic network,
New Mexico,
Potential Evapotranspiration,
Precipitation,
Runoff,
SPARROW,
Snowfall,
Snowmelt,
Snowpack,
Soil Water Storage,
Sublimation,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Upper Colorado River Basin,
Utah,
Water Resources,
Watershed,
Wyoming,
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters, Fewer tags
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Basin-fill aquifers are a major source of good-quality water for public supply in many areas of the southwestern United States and have undergone increasing development as populations have grown over time. During 2005, the basin-fill aquifer in Salt Lake Valley, Utah, provided approximately 75,000 acre-feet, or about 29 percent of the total amount of water used by a population of 967,000. Groundwater in the unconsolidated basin-fill deposits that make up the aquifer occurs under unconfined and confined conditions. Water in the shallow unconfined part of the groundwater system is susceptible to near-surface contamination and generally is not used as a source of drinking water. Groundwater for public supply is withdrawn...
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This generalized geology dataset was developed as input to a total dissolved solids Spatially Referenced Regressions on Watershed Attributes (SPARROW) model for the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB; Kenney and others, 2009) and for a more recent update to that model. The largest source of naturally generated dissolved solids in streams of the UCRB is the rocks underlying stream basins, particularly rocks high in dissolvable minerals. For the purposes of modeling, the scale of the geologic dataset optimally should be similar to the scale of the stream-catchment network used in the model but simplified to reduce the number of geologic units represented in the data. This dataset was developed to meet both scale and...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Arizona,
Colorado,
Geologic Formation,
Geology,
New Mexico, All tags...
Upper Colorado River Basin,
Utah,
Wyoming,
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters, Fewer tags
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