PROJ00300

• Contract/PO #: C153643
• Contractor Name: Morgan County Quality Water District
• Water District: 0
• County: Morgan
• Bill Number: XB 99-999
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

I

I

I
I
I
I

the same pattern as total dissolved solids and hardness. High nitrates in

certain samples may be attributable to contamination from livestock con-

centration areas near the wells. It would be advisable to be certain that

the measured concentrations do not reflect the general nitrate concentration

in the aquifer before developing that water for domestic and livestock sup-

plies.

Three more complete analyses of ground-water samples from Camp Creek

are presented in TRble 1. The one sample, analyzed by the U. S. Geological

Survey in 1959, shows the poorer quality water has existed for some time.

I

Table 1. Chemical Analyses of Ground-Water Samples
Camp Creek Alluvium

I

Sec. 20 Sec. 18
T3N, R54W.!/ T3N,R54Wll
(ppm) (ppm)
Calcium 115 310
Magnesium 40 195
Sodium 153 98
Potassium 53
Bicarbonate 490
Sulfate 310 44
Chloride 74 15
Fluoride 1.1
Nitrpte 22 4.1
Iron 0.01
Dissolved solids 1010 946
Hardness 452 504
pH 7.8 8.1

Sec. 17
T3N ,R54Wll
(ppm)

146
114
75

I

I
I

100
6

I

10.9
0.08
516
260
8.2

I

I/Sample collected from well #B3-~4-20aad, October, 1959,
reported in USGS Water Supply Paper 1777.

l/Samples collected August 1973, analyzed by William W. Allison,
Water Chemist, Fqrt Collins, Colorado

I

I
I
I
I

Safe yield estimate

Utilizing conservative estimates of the cross-sectional area of ground-

water flow, the gradient and the aquifer permeability, the ground-water

discharge from the Camp Creek alluvium is estimated to be 7500 acre feet

per year. At the proposed location of new wells little salvage of ground

I

- 12 -

M. W. BITTINGER AND ASSOCIATES, INC.