H.E. Thomas
W.B. Nelson
1953
<p><span>Data collected at the Topaz Relocation Center provide an excellent record of the development and subsequent disappearance of a cone of depression caused by </span>pumping<span>. This Center occupied temporarily an area of natural ground‐water discharge on the </span>floor<span> of the </span>Sevier<span> </span>Desert<span> in west‐central </span>Utah<span>. Water for a population of 6500 was pumped from artesian </span>wells<span> which tapped aquifers of sand. Overlying these sand beds are lake‐bed sediments too impermeable to yield water to </span>wells<span>, but apparently permeable enough to permit slow upward movement of water from the artesian aquifers. The water table is near the surface, and there is natural discharge by evapotranspiration, accumulation of “alkali” in the soil, and a need for drainage of irrigated lands. The </span>wells<span> were abandoned when the Relocation Center was closed, apparently because these handicaps were so great that the ground water could not be used profitably for irrigation. </span></p>
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American Geophysical Union
Pumping from wells on the floor of the Sevier Desert, Utah
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