Water Resources of Utah
Real-Time Streamflow Sites
Welcome to the USGS Web page for the Utah Water Science Center (WSC). Here you'll find information on Utah's rivers and streams, ground water, water quality, and many other topics. The USGS operates the most extensive satellite network of stream-gaging stations in the state, many of which form the backbone of flood-warning systems.
The USGS provides current ("real-time") stream stage and streamflow, water-quality, and ground-water level data for over 130 sites in Utah.
Active Groundwater Level Network
 The Active Groundwater Level Network contains water levels and well information from wells that have been measured by the USGS or USGS cooperators at least once within the past 365 days. Use the map interface to select ground-water monitoring sites, view available site ground-water level data, and access summary statistics for site water-level data period of record.
Utah Water Science Center Highlights
Ash Creek, Utah Reliable estimates of a wide range of streamflow characteristics are needed by water-resource managers, land-use planners, and structure designers. Obtaining this important information has just been made much easier with the recent release of the Utah StreamStats tool.
StreamStats is a Web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) developed by USGS that provides users with access to an assortment of analytical tools that are useful for water-resources planning and management, and for engineering design applications, such as the design of bridges. StreamStats allows users to easily obtain streamflow statistics, drainage-basin characteristics, and other information for user-selected sites on streams via an interactive web-mapping application.
Currently, StreamStats for Utah can be used to estimate the magnitude of peak flows under natural streamflow conditions at the 2-, 5-, 10-, 25-, 50-, 100-, 200-, and 500-year recurrence-intervals. Tools for estimating other streamflow characteristics are being developed and will be incorporated into the StreamStats tool. So stay tuned!
Featured Studies
Rush Valley Hydrologic Assessment
Rush Valley, Utah Development of ground-water resources in Rush Valley has been proposed to supply water to the growing population centers in Tooele and Cedar Valleys. Tooele Valley to the north and Cedar Valley to the southeast of Rush Valley are experiencing rapid suburban growth as the Salt Lake metropolitan area expands. Both of these valleys are within the Great Basin and have limited water resources and are closed to new water appropriations. The three valleys are linked hydrologically with ground water flowing from higher elevation Rush Valley into both Tooele and Cedar Valleys. The objective of the proposed study is to reassess the surface-water and ground-water hydrology of Rush Valley to develop a new conceptual model of the ground-water flow system in the valley. Specifically, the proposed study will update the water budgets, develop new potentiometric surface maps for the principal basin-fill aquifer, a new map of water quality in the basin-fill aquifer, and assess inter-basin flow from Rush Valley to adjacent valleys.
The Rush Valley Hydrologic Assessment is part of the USGS Utah Water Science Center’s Cooperative Water Program and is conducted in cooperation with the Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of Water Rights and Utah Geological Survey.
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