Data on water wells in the upper Mojave Valley area, San Bernardino County, California

Bader, J.S.; Page, R.W.; Dutcher, L.C.

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“…The results of detailed studies of water-well data and ground-water occurrence are available in the following reports: Johnson (1911), Thompson (1929), , Page, Moyle, and Dutcher (1960), Bader, Page, and Dutcher (1958), Dutcher (1959Dutcher ( ), l{unkel (1956Dutcher ( , 1962, and Kunkel and others (1957); additional work is in progress. Therefore only the regional geologic aspects of the ground-water conditions, based on these references and on unpublished hydrologic studies, are discussed below.…”

Section: Ground Watermentioning

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Areal geology of the western Mojave Desert, California

Dibblee¹

1967

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Aerial view looking nol'thwest o,•er the Mud Hills, 9 miles north Qf Barstow. Fossiliferous terrestrial beds of Miocene Barstow Formation are partly capped by dissected older alluvium. Rainbow Canyon is at lower right. Beds dip into axis of major syncline with axis across amphitheater of Rainbow Canyon. Light-colored hills beyond amphitheater eroded from pyroclastic rocks of lower Miocene(?) Pickhandle Formation. Hills in background are mainly Mesozoic plutonic rocks overlain by Pliocene (?) andesite and Pleistocene basalt. Goldstone dry lake is at upper right.

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Section: Ground Watermentioning

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Areal geology of the western Mojave Desert, California

Dibblee¹

1967

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“…Several reports containing data on wells in the Mojave River basin and the adjoining basins north and east of the San Bernardino Mountains have been prepared by the Geological Survey, in cooperation with the California Department of Water Resources (Burnham, 1955;Riley, 1956;Kunkel, 1956;Bader, Page, and Dutcher, 1958;Bader and Moyle, 1958;Bader and Moyle, 1960;Page, Moyle, and Dutcher, 1960;Dyer, Bader, Giessner, and others, 1963). Those reports contained detailed data about water wells, records of water levels, drillers' logs of wells, and chemical analyses of water from i>;ells throughout the area.…”

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Water resources of the Marine Corps Supply Center area, Barstow, California

Miller¹

1969

Open-File Report

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Ground water in storage is presently the only dependable source of water for the Marine Corps Supply Center, Barstow, Calif. The stored water is a firm supply that is readily available to wells. The present water supply is pumped from the Barstow and Yermo subunits of the Mojave River system. These subunits supply water for all irrigation, industrial, public supply, military, and domestic uses in the area. Two million acre-feet or more of usable ground water is in storage in the two subunits. The historically slow rate of water-level decline in wells in the subunits suggests that the water in storage is adequate to meet demands for many years. The supply center has pumped about 1,550 acre-feet annually for several years.Recharge to the ground-water basins is largely by seepage losses from the Mojave River during infrequent floods. During the period of record, 1931-66, about 580,000 acre-feet of floodwater passed the gage at Barstow. Almost one-fourth of this total occurred during 1 year (1938) and three-fourths of the total occurred as a result of large storms during only 4 years of the 36-year period. The potential recharge to the Barstow and Yermo subunits in this period averaged about 12,000 acre-feet annually.WATER RESOURCES, MARINE CORPS SUPPLY CENTER, BARSTOW, CALIF.t. Purpose and Scope of the InvestigationThe purpose of this investigation is to identify, insofar as the data permit, the factors that affect the ground-water resources available to the supply center and to determine the long-term adequacy of the supply.The scope of the investigation includes:1. Study of the geology and ground-water hydrology of the area to determine the extent and character of the water-bearing deposits.2. Location of geologic barriers to the movement of ground-water or conditions that might relate to the occurrence, source, and adequacy of the ground-water supply.3. Evaluation of the effect on the water resources of the supply center caused by the use and development of ground water in other parts of the Mojave River valley.4. Estimation of the ground-water storage capacity in the supply center area and the quantity of ground water available for use at the Marine Corps Supply Center, Barstow, during the next several years.5. Study of the chemical quality of ground water and surface water, the possibility of changes in water quality, and the related effect on the water supply.6. Description of the general extent of the Mojave River system and its relation to the geohydrology of the Marine Corps Supply Center area.7. Description of the results of a test-drilling program.The report was prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, under the supervision of L. C. Dutcher, chief of the Garden Grove subdistrict, and under the general direction of Walter Hofmann and R. Stanley Lord, successive chiefs of the California district.

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Applications of factor analysis in study of chemistry of groundwater quality, Mojave River Valley, California

Dawdy¹,

Feth²

1967

Water Resources Research

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Factor apalysis is applied to results of chemical analyses of 103 water samples from wells in the Upper and Middle Mojave River valley, San Bernardino County, California. Chemical analyses showed that there are three principal chemical types of water, calcium bicarbonate, sodium sulfate, and sodium chloride, as well as many mixtures of the three. Data were studied by factor analysis to learn the relative importance of each principal ion in determining the variations among the samples, and to examine the possibility of chemical equilibrium between aqueous and solid phases in the aquifers.Most of the covariance in the system may be accounted for by variances of Ca +•, Mg +•, Na +•, SO• -•, and C1-L There is almost identical loading on the constituents Na +• and C1-L The variance in chemical composition of the hydrochemical system is governed largely by sources of sodium chloride. None of the components is controlled by equilibrium between ions in the water and minerals in the aquifers. Concentrations of NO8 -• and F -• vary independently of other constituents. Geographic distribution of statistical loadings of the principal constituents at individual wells does not reveal sources of the constituents, which must be deduced from geologic and hydrologic evidence. Factor analysis, however, furnished the critical information on chemical relationships basic to the deduction. (GEOLOGIC AND HYDROLOGIC ENVIRONblENT The Upper Mojave River valley occupies about 650 square miles near the southwestern apex of the Mojave Desert (Figure 1) and is defined [Bader et al., 1958] as that part of the river valley extending from the base of the San Bernardino Mountains to the river narrows near Victorville, about 20 miles downstream. In this area, most water samples are distinct as to chemical type: calcium bicarbonate, sodium sulfate, or sodium chloride. About 400 square miles of the Middle Mojave River valley [Page et al., 1960] adjacent to the upper valley is included in the present study. There the waters are mostly varied mixtures of the three original chemical types. The Mojave River is formed by the junction of the West Fork Mojave River and Deep Creek. These streams rise on the north side of the San Bernardino Mountains, near Cajon Pass. The rocks of the mountains are mostly metamorphic and igneous [Dibblee, 1957], but toward the west include sedimentary types. The metamorphic terrane is a complex of gneiss, biotite schist, mica-quartz-albite schist, quartzite, and marble of Precambrian (?) age intruded by quartz diorite, granodiorite, and diorite of Mesozoic age or older. Some of the schist is pyritic (L. C. DutcheL oral communication, 1965). The igneous terrane consists mostly of biotite quartz monzonite but includes granite and granodiorite. It is probably of late Jurassic or early Cretaceous age, but in part may be older. The sedimentary rocks in and north of the drainage basin of West Fork Mojave River are continental deposits of sandstone, siltstone, and shale, which locally include some conglomerate, limestone, dolomite, ...

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Data on water wells in the upper Mojave Valley area, San Bernardino County, California

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Areal geology of the western Mojave Desert, California

Areal geology of the western Mojave Desert, California

Water resources of the Marine Corps Supply Center area, Barstow, California

Applications of factor analysis in study of chemistry of groundwater quality, Mojave River Valley, California

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