Water-quality assessment of the Great Salt Lake basins, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming: Environmental setting and study design

Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4115
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Abstract

The Great Salt Lake Basins, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming is one of 51 study units in the United States where the status and trends of water quality, and the factors controlling water quality, are being studied by the National Water-Quality Assessment Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. The 14,500-square-mile Great Salt Lake Basins study unit encompasses three major river systems that enter Great Salt Lake: the Bear, the Weber, and the Utah Lake/Jordan River systems. The environmental setting of the study unit includes natural and human-related factors that potentially influence the physical, chemical, and/or biological quality of the surface- and ground-water resources. Surface- and ground-water components of the planned assessment activities are designed to evaluate the sources of natural and human-related factors that affect the water quality in the Great Salt Lake Basins study unit.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Water-quality assessment of the Great Salt Lake basins, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming: Environmental setting and study design
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 2002-4115
DOI 10.3133/wri024115
Year Published 2002
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Salt Lake City, UT
Contributing office(s) Utah Water Science Center
Description viii, 47 p.
Public Comments National Water-Quality Assessment Program
Country United States
State Idaho, Utah, Wyoming
Other Geospatial Great Salt Lake basins
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