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Research about Moffat County, Routt County, Colorado

Source-linked reports with geographic coverage including Moffat County, Routt County, Colorado.

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USGS1977

Reconnaissance drilling in the Yampa coal field, Hayden-Williams Fork Mountains area (Yampa No. 3), Moffat and Routt counties, Colorado, during 1976

Under Contract No. 14-08-0001-15727, awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey, Jim Feighny, of Loveland, Colo., drilled 42 test holes in the Williams Fork Mountains near Hayden, Colo., in September 1976. The area is referred to in the Contract as Yampa No. 3, which includes the Bureau of Land Management's (ELM) tracts WF-10, WF-12, WF-16, and WF-17. The purpose of the drilling was to obtain information on the quality and extent of the coal in the area. All holes were logged using either Gamma-Gamma (density), Natural Gamma, Caliper, Resistivity, or spontaneous-potential (SP) geophysical logs. The logging was done by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Birdwell Division of Seismograph Service Corp., Century Geophysical, and Geodynamics, Inc. The water level is indicated in table 1 for each drill hole at the time the hole was logged. All holes were drilled on private surface, and surface ownership is shown in table 1.

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USGS1977

Reconnaissance of ground-water resources in a part of the Yampa River basin between Craig and Steamboat Springs, Moffat and Routt counties, Colorado

This report presents the results of an investigation of ground-water resources in that part of the Yampa River basin between the towns of Craig and Steamboat Springs. The location of the study area is shown on the index map. The investigation was begun in 1975 by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources, Office of the State Engineer.

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