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Title page 255 Final supplement to the final environmental statement, Municipal and Industrial System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project : Summit, Wasatch, Utah, and Salt Lake Counties, Utah, page 255
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Relation Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; LAW OFFICES OF FABIAN & CLENDENIN A professional corporation mr clifford I 1 barrett october 28 1986 page fourteen the uintex sintex final report 1984 p 10 presents permeability data collected from the above referenced BOR drill hole indicating that it has the highest vertical and horizontal permeability of any drill hole in the area moreover this BOR monitoring well noted in the USGS report is located in the south central portion of section 19 township 2 south range 4 east and is directly on line of the east west striking hawkeye mchenry fissure system as mapped by the USGS this fissure system is one of the major structures in the mining district and is the host for numerous ore bodies the fissure was a major source of ore for the park utah mines barnes orebodies Ore bodies of the united states 1933 1967 1969 p1150 as well as the ontario mine and contains one of the largest defined and substantiated mineral reserves known in the park city district unpublished anaconda ASARCO report the hawkeye mchenry fissure system penetrates southern portions of the ontario mine at mine levels where known mineral reserves are located both above and below the ontario no 2 drain tunnel the elevation of the groundwater within the alluvium along the easterly projection of the hawkeye mchenry fissure system will rise substantially when the reservoir is filled and because of the lateral and vertical permeabilities perme abilities of the alluvium the groundwater aquifers will be constantly recharged by the impounded reservoir water the USGS open file report no 85 638 supra states UINTEX corp 1984 p 17 reports good hydraulic connection between unconsolidated valley fill and underlying bedrock aquifers in the proposed reservoir area water levels probably decline in the unconsolidated valley fill in parts of drain tunnel creek drainage when water levels in fractured consolidated rocks decline below water levels in the fill because of the dewatering watering de operations in the mines USGS at p 39 255
Identifier http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9605

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