Smithfield, Utah, sits about thirty miles south of the Utah-Idaho border at the eastern edge of Cache Valley. In the fields west of town lies an area not unlike those in other Utah valleys where drainage from the mountains, along with the drainage of civilized endeavors, accumulates. Here it is possible to forget that one is living in a high mountain desert. The aquifer rises in springs and seeps and settles in watercress choked bogs, eventually finding its way, by tributary, to the Bear River.