Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5205
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5205
The purpose of this report is to provide estimates of annual ground-water pumpage for the Yakima River Basin for selected years from 1960 to 2000, and to compare the pumpage to appropriated ground-water rights. In this report, the term “pumpage” is synonymous with the term “withdrawal” and similar to the term “water use” used in other reports.
Pumpage is estimated and compared for eight categories of ground-water use: public water supply, self-supplied domestic, irrigation, frost protection, livestock and related operations, industrial and commercial, fish and wildlife propagation, and ground-water claims. A claim is a water-right document in which a claimant declares a claim for ground-water use and may be valid if it describes continual use starting prior to July 1945. Although most estimated pumpage for claims is for irrigation, claims are considered separate from the irrigation category. Pumpage estimates are based on information from public water systems, farms, various agencies of the State of Washington (Department of Health, Department of Ecology, and Department of Agriculture), census data, crop-type information, and measurements. Pumpage estimates are described or reported in units of acre‑ft, Bgal, and Mgal/d, and unless otherwise stated, acre-ft and Bgal represent the volume pumped per year.
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