Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5261
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5261
Table 5. Estimates of annual ground-water recharge, Basin and Range carbonate-rock aquifer system study area, Nevada and Utah.
[USGS authored reports indicated in bold in footnotes. Recharge estimates using two different methods are reported for Watson and others (1976) and Flint and others (2004). Abbreviations: USGS, U.S. Geological Survey; BCM, Basin Characterization Model; –, no estimate]
| Hydrographic area name |
Estimates of ground-water recharge, in thousands of acre-feet per year | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS authored reports | Watson and others (1976) | Nichols (2000) | Epstein (2004) | Dettinger (1989) | Kirk and Campana (1990) | Thomas and others (2001) | Flint and others (2004) | Brothers and others (1993a,b, and 1994) | Current study, BCM | |||
| Butte Valley-southern | 115 | 16 | 14 | 69 | 29 | 12 | – | – | 22 | 18 | – | 35 |
| Cave Valley | 314 | 9 | 8 | – | 15 | – | 11 | 20 | 10 | 9 | 213 | 11 |
| Jakes Valley | 417 | – | – | 39 | 14 | – | 18 | 24 | 11 | 8 | – | 16 |
| Lake Valley | 513 | 9 | 9 | – | 24 | – | – | 41 | 15 | 12 | – | 13 |
| Little Smoky Valley | 64 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 9 | – | – | – | 8 | 6 | – | 4 |
| Long Valley | 710 | 7 | 12 | 48 | 22 | – | 5 | 31 | 16 | 14 | – | 25 |
| Newark Valley | 818 | 13 | 14 | 49 | 29 | – | – | – | 18 | 15 | – | 21 |
| Snake Valley | 9103 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 93 | 82 | 10110 | 111 |
| Spring Valley | 1175 | 63 | 33 | 104 | 93 | 62 | – | – | 67 | 56 | 1272 | 93 |
| Steptoe Valley | 1385 | 75 | 45 | 132 | 101 | – | – | – | 111 | 94 | – | 154 |
| Tippett Valley | 147 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 9 | – | – | – | 10 | 8 | – | 12 |
| White River Valley | 438 | – | – | – | 42 | – | 35 | 62 | 35 | 31 | – | 35 |
1Glancy (1968).
2Brothers and others (1993a).
3Eakin (1962).
4Eakin (1966).
5Rush and Eakin (1963).
6Rush and Everett (1966).
7Eakin (1961).
8Eakin (1960).
9Hood and Rush (1965).
10Brothers and others (1993b).
11Rush and Kazmi (1965).
12Brothers and others (1994).
13Eakin and others (1967).
14Harrill (1971).
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