CEDAR VALLEY - AREA 54
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DESCRIPTION:
Extending from T4S to T10S in western Utah County,
this area involves the flows of intermittent streams eastward from the Oquirrh
Mountains into the valley. The area is bordered on the north by the Salt Lake
Valley, on the west by Rush Valley, and on the east by Utah Lake and Goshen
Valley. The highest point in the area
is 10,589 foot Lowe Peak, while the lowest is the surface of Utah Lake at
about 4,490 feet, giving a total relief of about 6,100 feet. Click here
to see a map of the area.
MANAGEMENT:
A Proposed Determination of Water Rights book
was published in 1975. No pre-trial orders or interlocutory decrees have been
issued. There are several other decrees
in this area, most notably a Utah Supreme Court decision in 1966 concerning
the rights in Fairfield Springs. There
is no state-administered distribution system in this area. This area is subject to the conditions of the
Utah Lake
Water Distribution Plan, the Utah/Goshen
Valley Ground-water Management Plan, and the Cedar
Valley Ground-water Management Plan. There are approximately 1,100 water rights
on file with the State Engineer in this area.
SOURCES: SURFACE &
GROUND WATER - All supplies of water are fully appropriated. Non-consumptive use applications, such as
hydroelectric power generation, will be considered on their individual
merits. Changes from surface to
underground sources, and vice versa, are considered on their individual merits,
with emphasis on their potential to interfere with existing rights and to
ensure that there is no enlargement of the underlying rights. Fixed-time and temporary projects,
especially those involving surface waters, must be handled by temporary change
applications. Applicants are placed on
notice that dry years may bring about a reduction of artesian pressure,
therefore, well construction should accommodate the installation of submersible
pumps. Applicants are placed on notice
that development should be pursued as soon as possible, and requests for
extensions of time in which to file proof will be critically reviewed after an
initial five year period.
GENERAL: Applications are
advertised in the Lehi Free Press.
The general irrigation diversion duty for this area, which the State
Engineer uses for evaluation purposes, is 4.0 acre-feet per acre per year. The consumptive use requirement is determined
from the publication Consumptive
Use of Irrigated Crops in Utah, Research Report 145, Utah State University,
1994, unless the applicant submits other data for consideration.
This area is administered by the Utah
Lake-Jordan River Regional Office in Salt Lake City.
REFERENCES: Technical Publication
No. 11, Ground Water in Northern Utah Valley, Utah: A Progress Report
for the Period 1948-63; Utah Department of Natural Resources; 1965.
Technical Publication No. 16, Ground-water Conditions in Cedar Valley, Utah; Utah Department of
Natural Resources; 1967.
Technical Publication No. 46, Water-Quality Reconnaissance of Surface Inflow to Utah Lake, Utah;
Utah Department of Natural Resources; 1974.
Technical Publication No. 80, Ground-water Resources of Northern Utah Valley, Utah; Utah Department
of Natural Resources; 1985.
Basic-Data Report No. 2,
Records of Selected Wells and Springs, Selected Drillers= Logs of Wells, and Chemical Analyses of
Ground and Surface Waters, Northern Utah Valley, Utah; Utah State Engineer;
1962.
Basic-Data Report No. 39, Selected Hydrologic Data for Northern Utah Valley, Utah, 1935-1982;
Utah Department of Natural Resources; 1982.
MODELING: Regional Ground-Water
Flow, Carbonate-Rock Province, Nevada, Utah, and Adjacent States; USGS
Open-File Reports 93-170 and 93-420; 1993.
Northern Utah Valley Ground-water Flow Model, 1985.