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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />2887 <br /> <br />Water supply.--Yields of wells tapping the Junction <br /> <br />Creek generally are small and the quality of the water <br /> <br />is only fair to poor. It yields small to moderate quantities <br /> <br />of water for domestic and stock use to a few wells in the <br /> <br />western half of the project area. It lies at depths <br /> <br />ranging from 900 to 2,000 feet below the land surface <br /> <br />here, and water generally can be obtained more easily <br /> <br />from the overlying Dakota Sandstone. In the Mesa Verde <br /> <br />area and t11e New Mexico part of the reservation, the forma- <br /> <br />tion lies at depths greater than 2,000 feet, and no water <br /> <br />wells have penetrated it. <br /> <br />Water in t11e Junction Creek is under artesian pressure <br /> <br />except on the outcrop along McElmo Creek and perhaps in the <br /> <br />mountains. Water is under sufficient pressure in two wells <br />in <br /> <br />IE-Il, and B-12, fig. 2) to flow at the surface^a structural <br /> <br /> <br />low. Because only a few water wells penetrate the Junction <br /> <br />Creek, data are not sufficient to delineate areas where <br /> <br />flowing artesian wells could be developed, but geologic <br /> <br />conditions indicate that wells penetrating the formation <br /> <br />in the vicinity of the structural and topographic low near <br /> <br />Four Corners should flow. <br /> <br />At Towaoc each of three public-supply wells, yielding <br /> <br />from 25 to 60 gpm, tap three sandstones, the Junction Creek, <br /> <br />Entrada, and Navajo. The Junction Creek probably supplies <br /> <br />half these yields. <br /> <br />~y <br />, <br />