Environmental analysis of cooperative research contract for the Marysville Geothermal Project
Subtitle: deep research well phase
By: Bureau of Land Management, District Office, Missoula, Montana
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, District Office
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Missoula, Mont
Language: eng
Subjects: Public lands; Management; Petrology; Boring; Environmental aspects; Geothermal resources
Other titles: Marysville Geothermal Project : 
Description: The proposed action is to revise the existing Cooperative Research Contract to authorize the deep test well drilling phase of an on-going research project ... The well site is in T. 12 N., R. 6 W., PMM, Sec. 32, in the valley of Empire Creek near Marysville in southwestern Lewis and Clark County, Montana ... The objective of this research project is to investigate a geothermal anomaly of high heat flow discovered in 1969 in west-central Montana, and to determine how this natural resource might be developed as a source of useful energy. Under Phase I, the natural resource will be explored, drilled, and modeled at an estimated cost of 2,588,935 dollars over a 3-year period. Phase II, depending on the nature of the heat source, will be to develop the resource under a cooperative effort of government and private industry. This environmental analysis is intended to cover the drilling and logging operations noted under Phase I.