Beaver River Basin, Utah and Nevada: Water and Related Land Resources, Summary Report

Excerpts from the report: Beaver River Basin extends from the Pine Valley Mountains on the south to Sevier Lake on the north. The east border lies on the High Plateaus, with the bulk of the area extending westward to the Wah Wah Mountains and House Range in the Basin and Range Province. Counties partially or entirely within the area are Beaver, Iron, Juab, Millard, Washington, and minor areas of Sevier and Garfield. The small area in Nevada is in Lincoln County. Beaver, Iron and Millard counties comprise the major land area. It contains 5.2 million acres and is 145 miles long, north to south, and 116 miles wide. This report identifies problems and needs concerning the conservation and use of water and land resources and emphasizes development opportunities through the initiative of local sponsors. It also provides information to plan programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, other federal agencies, and the state of Utah, and provides a basis for effective coordination between these agencies. Although land resources were studied, they were examined primarily as they relate to water. This study focuses on water resources and analyzes their importance to economic development. A water budget program was developed to evaluate water resource-inflow-use-outflow relationships. A second evaluation determined inflow-use-outflow relationship of irrigation water based upon a crop priority system.