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Elevated levels of nitrate and the presence of fecal coliform bacteria occur in the Bancroft water supply wells. A study was conducted by scientists with the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute's "" Technical Assistance for Rural Ground Water...
2024-12-04
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The development of ground-water and surface-water irrigation on the eastern Snake River Plain has necessitated conjunctive management of the ground and surface water resources. To facilitate this management approach, the Idaho Department of Water...
2006-07-01
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Victor, located in the upper Teton River drainage of southeast Idaho, acquires its drinking water from two sources: springs in the Game Creek drainage, and the supplemental Willow creek ground-water well located west of town. This town of 840 uses...
2024-12-04
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Evapotranspiration (ET) is the primary component of irrigation water requirements for agricultural crops and landscapes. ET is the combined process by which water is converted from liquid or solid forms via evaporation from soil and wet plant...
2007-04-01
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Hydrologic Effects of Curtailment of Ground-Water Pumping (also known as the Curtailment Scenario), was originally performed using version 1.0 of the Snake River Plain aquifer model [Idaho Water Resources Research Institute (IWRRI), 2004]. The...
2006-03-01
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Evapotranspiration is a major component of basin water budgets and consequently knowledge of this feature is essential to studies and planning of water management. For example, in the eastern Snake River Plain, estimates of evapotranspiratjon (ET)...
2007-06-01
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The purpose of this spreadsheet and accompanying programs is to provide water users and managers with a common tool for the analysis of hydrologic impacts of groundwater right transfers within the Eastern Snake River Plain aquifer on gains and...
2007-05-01
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The communities of Bloomington and Paris, located along the west side of Bear Lake, derive their water from limestone cave-hosted springs. Scientists with the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute's ""Technical Assistance for Rural Ground Water...
2024-12-04
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An evaluation of the scenario, Hydrologic Effects of Continued 1980-2002 Water Supply and Use Conditions (also known as the Base Case Scenario), was originally performed using version 1.0 of the Snake River Plain aquifer model [Idaho Water...
2005-12-01
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Franklin, the oldest incorporated community in Idaho, lies along the east side of Cache Valley in the Bear River drainage. This town of approximately 640 residents acquires its domestic water from springs and wells along the western front of the...
2024-12-04
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Design documents are a series of technical papers addressing specific design topics on the eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer Model upgrade. Each design document will contain the following information: topic of the design document, how that topic...
2006-05-01
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Estimation of M&I demand functions are costly and data intensive. To obtain the degrees of freedom, data needs to be obtained from a cross section of municipalities or a time series for many years from a single city. And given these data...
2005-03-01
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The Idaho Water Resource Board is concerned about potential changes in water use that may have occurred due to changes in crop mix. One option for benefitting the aquifer water budget is to consider policy that would affect crop mix. Data indicate...
2008-01-25
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Design documents are a series of technical papers addressing specific design topics on the eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer Model upgrade. Each design document will contain the following information: topic of the design document, how that topic...
2005-02-24
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This scenario, Hydrologic Implications of Continued Drought and Potential Recovery
from Drought, (also know as the ""Drought Scenario"") is one of many simulations using
the Snake River Plain aquifer model to provide information and assist in...
2005-02-14
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated a rule on 1217/2000 that requires a maximum contamirtant level (MCL) compliance at a concentration of zero pCiIL for radionuclides in community water systems. The Idaho Department of...
2005-04-20
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The Idaho Water Resource Board is preparing a Comprehensive Aquifer Management Plan for the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. As part of the data-gathering process for preparation of the plan, the Board and its advisory group have requested an...
2008-02-07
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Water in the western United States is essentially fully allocated; thus water for new demands must come from reallocation of existing supplies. Since over 80% of the water withdrawals in the west are for agriculture, potential reallocation...
2008-08-01
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As described in ESPAM1.1 Design Document DDW-020 (Contor, 2004), water that seeps from the bed of ditches and canals is direct recharge to the aquifer and is unavailable for delivery to farm fields1 (and therefore unavailable for crop...
2008-08-01
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This report is a Design Document for the calibration of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Model Version 2 (ESPAM 2). Its goals are similar to the goals of Design Documents for ESPAM 1.1: To provide full transparency of modeling data, decisions and...
2008-04-16
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This report is a Design Document for the calibration of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Model Version 2 (ESPAM 2). Its goals are similar to the goals of Design Documents for ESPAM 1.1: To provide full transparency of modeling data, decisions and...
2008-06-01
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The Egin Lakes are ponds located near a Bureau of Land Management recreational site at the end of the Recharge Canal in southwestern Fremont County, approximately 11 miles west of the town of St. Anthony. A canal extends west of Egin Lakes...
2009-06-01
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This report is a Design Document for the calibration of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Model Version 2 (ESPAM 2). Its goals are similar to the goals of Design Documents for ESPAM 1.1: To provide full transparency of modeling data, decisions and...
2009-04-01
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This report is a Design Document for the calibration of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Model Version 2 (ESPAM 2). Its goals are similar to the goals of Design Documents for ESPAM 1.1: To provide full transparency of modeling data, decisions and...
2009-06-01
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For many decades ground water hydrologists have taken advantage of the linearity of the confined ground water flow or diffusion equation to simplify hydrogeologic analyses. The scalability and additive responses of linear systems have given rise...
2009-06-01
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