Bibliography on Vancouver Lake Watershed, including Burnt Bridge Creek, Flushing Channel, Lake River, and Salmon Creek
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Bibliography of Vancouver Lake watershed, including Burnt Bridge Creek, Flushing Channel, Lake River, and Salmon Creek

A history of restoration efforts for Vancouver Lake

Mundorff, M.J. 1964. Geology and Ground-Water Conditions of Clark County, Washington with a Description of a Major Alluvial Aquifer Along the Columbia River. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey. (Water supply bulletin no.9).

This report presents the results of an investigation of the ground-water resources of the populated parts of Clark County. Yields adequate for irrigation can be obtained from wells in most farmed areas in clar Cunty, Wash. The totla available supply is sufficient for all foreseeable irrigation developments. In a few local areas aquifers are fine-graned, and yeilds of individual wells are low.

An enormous ground-water supply is available from a major alluvial aquifer underlying the flood plain of the Columbia River in the vicinity of Vancouver, Camas, and Washougal, where the aquifer is recharged, in part, by infiltration from the river. Yields of individual wells are large, ranging to as much as 4,000 gpm (gallons per minute).

Clark County lies along the western flank of the Cascade Range in the structural lowland (Willamette-Puget trough) between those mountains and the Coast Ranges to the west. The area covered by the report includes the urban, the suburban, and most of the agricultural lands in the county. These lands lie on a series of nearly flat plains and benches which rise steplike from the level of the Columbia River (a few feet above sea level) to about 800 feet above sea level.

Clark County is drained by the Columbia River (the trunk stream of the Pacific Northwest) and its tributaries. The Columbia River forms the southern and western boundaries of the county.

Although the climate of the county is considered to be humid, the precipitation ranging from about 37 to more than 110 inches annually in various parts of the county, the unequal seasonal distribution (about 1.5 inches total for July and August in the agricultural area) makes irrigation highly desirable for most crops and essential for some specialized crops.

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