Class Notes - April 12 -- URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHIES - case histories... from now to final

ASSIGNMENTS ... HW15 -- understand the form, and contribute to it; HW16 the hydrologic setting form for Salt Lake County, UT; HW17 FIELD TRIP handout; HW18 - Urban Environmental Geography of Alta, UT; HW19 for Moab, UT; HW20 Tampa FL... Yucca Mtn, NV. .

First - a YouTube clip -- London's Urban Environmental Geography - http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=7TDnuUq9v_M&feature=related

Hydrologic setting - cross-section section -- Salt Lake County. HW16

Hydrologic setting - cross-section -- Alta HW16

APRIL 15, 2010

First- URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHIES –

MOAB – meaning, the Upper Colorado River Basin

Then- review handouts so far… respond to questions.

 

Concepts today…

Recharge and discharge of aquifers

Gaining and losing streams

 

Hydrologic basins of the United States

WATER CYCLE review -- WATER BUDGETS

USGS - Surface hydrologic units - USGS Watersheds

USGS Principal Aquifers

USGS USGS ColoradRiverBasins

UGS-Surface Drainages Utah. UTahPowerBoad-StreamFlows UtahDNR-PrecipitationByBasin

USGS Saturated and Unsaturated

 USGS flow gradients

 

NOTE THIS LINK!!! Key to success for case studies.

LINK to source of information for all the sites we’ll discuss

http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/wsp2242/pdf/wsp2242.pdf

 

And, on reserve at Marriott: Todd, Ground-Water Resources of the United States

 

USGS Water Supply Paper-2242, Heath, 1984. Link to pdf on ESE site LINK

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS –

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Note definition of “ground water” – saturated zone… you can use broad or narrow definition.

Definition of potentiometric surface; saturated zone; water table; water budget

Ground water regions of United States LINK FIGURE 59

Review: how water flows through rock units: LINK FIGURE 04

Flow paths of ground water FIGURE 05

COLORADO PLATEAU – FIGURE22

COLORADO PLATEAU – Recharge areas and Discharge areas FIGURE 25

 

SKETCH…

Raise questions on Handout.

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Colorado River Basin… upper and lower divided – surface waters

Map – link to http://crc.nv.gov/images/colorado_river_basin.gif

 

Management issues… overarching issues: Colorado River Basin Water Management: Evaluating and Adjusting to Hydroclimatic Variability

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/colorado_river_management_final.pdf 

 

Grand Canyon Trust – The Colorado: A River at Risk … coping with drought in the Colorado River Basin 2005-2006

http://www.grandcanyontrust.org/documents/gc_riverDrought.pdf

 

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