Hydrogeologic Framework of the Wood River Valley Aquifer System, South-Central Idaho

The Wood River Valley contains most of the population of Blaine County and the cities of Sun Valley, Ketchum, Hailey, and Bellevue. This mountain valley is underlain by the alluvial Wood River Valley aquifer system, which consists primarily of a single unconfined aquifer that underlies the entire valley, an underlying confined aquifer that is present only in the southernmost valley, and the confining unit that separates them. The entire population of the area depends on groundwater for domestic supply, either from domestic or municipal-supply wells, and rapid population growth since the 1970s has caused concern about the long-term sustainability of the groundwater resource. As part of an ongoing U.S. Geological Survey effort to characterize the groundwater resources of the Wood River Valley, this report describes the hydrogeologic framework of the Wood River Valley aquifer system.

Author: Candice B. Adkins

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jul 11, 2014

Number of Pages: 52 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1500491012

ISBN-13: 9781500491017