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Water Conservation - supply from Lake Mead (2 of 2)
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Las V egas,Nevada REVIEW - JOURNAL July 21, 19^8 Los Vegas Valley Water Withdrawal Keeps Even fvaiw ? f ?J^GTON, JuIy-S (AP) — Residents of the Las Vegas of. Neirada are, withdrawing artesian ground water just about as fast as the underground resources are being replenished The geological survey said yesterday that annual discharge from | wells and springs, m the valley increased from' 20.500 acre-feet in 11912 to 31,700 in 1946, j It estimates the annual re­charge-of underground reservoirs jin the valley at from 30,000 to 135,000 acre-feet. Additional water may safely j I be drawn from wells and springs j jin Pahrump valley west of Las Vegas and Indian Springs val­ley to the northwest, the survey said. Annual discharge from wells j and springs in Pahrump valley has increased from 9,600 acre- I feet in 1916 to 17,500 acre-feet in 1946 but the annual rate of re­charge is 23,000 acre-feet. In. Indian Spring' valley- annual j withdrawals have declined- from a war-time peak of 1,450 acre- j feet a year to 800 acre-feet in I 1946, while the annual recharge I is 4,700 acre-feet.