WSP07754

• File Number: 8281.300
• Description: Colorado River Studies and Investigations - Colorado River Consumptive Uses and Losses Report
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 12/31/1980
• Author: Cntr for Remote Sens
• Title: Uinta Basin Werland/Land use Study: a Merger of Digital Landsat and Aircraft CIR Techniques
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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STUDY OBJECTIVE

The U.S. Soil Conservation Service (SCS) and the Utah Division of Water
Resources (DWR) share a common concern about efficiency of water use in the
State. The Uinta Basin in northeastern Utah is an area undergoing rapid
change as oil and gas development alter the land resource base and stimulate
population growth. As a moisture deficit region, the allocation and efficiency

of limited water is fundamental to present and future development. Recent
legislation about wetland preservation further complicates the management
issue, making it more difficult to alter wetlands. Better information about
their quality, type, and distribution, is required in order to properly assess
any impacts due to site disturbance or reallocation of the water source.
As stated in the DWR contract, the Division has a twofold interest in
the study. "The first is that the Division is faced with the task of updating
the water related land use and the hydrologic inventories reports. The second
is that the Division must strive to improve the methodology used in the gathering
and processing of the vast amount of data and information necessary to complete

the studies."

The contract also states the general objectives of the project as follows:
"Since the state of the art of remote sensing using high altitude (U-2)

color infrared photography and laboratory interpretation is operational,

the Division of Water Resources general objectives are to determine the

adaptability of remote sensing for the collecting and tabulating the water
related land use data.

"The Uinta Basin was selected as the study area since it has been over

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