WSP08775

• File Number: 8056
• Description: Drought Preparedness
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/1/1979
• Author: USGS
• Title: Hydrologic and Human aspects of the 1976-77 Drought
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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CHRONOLOGY OF THE 1976-77 DROUGHT

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Colorado Rockies.

1931 or 1934, The 1977 flow of the Animas
River at Durango was 51 percent of the pre-
vious low and that of the Yampa River at
Steamboat Springs was 99 percent. Monthly
flows were in the lowest quartile during June
and July 1977 at Steamboat Springs and during
May and June at Durango. The annual runoff
at Steamboat Springs was 97 percent and that

at Durango was 88 percent of the previous
minimum annual runoff which occurred in
1934.
The average flow of the White River near
Meeker in northwestern Colorado during the
first 13 days of July 1977 was 70 ft 3/s which is
63 percent of the previous minimum daily flow
that occurred on July 17, 1934. The San Juan

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