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<br />Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program <br /> <br />t~ <br />O. <br />C<-" <br /> <br />The: main tributaries 10 the LllI]e Snake RIver are lItt]efie]d. loco. ~1cKinney. ~Iuddy, and Sawry <br />Cret:ks All bUI Savery Creek have been Idenufied as Water Qualny Llmlled Segments by the <br />Wyoming Depanment of En\'lronmental Quality Salinity reduclions \\.ithin [he llUle Snake River <br />....Hershed accounted for roughly 335 tons per year of the 600 [Oos per year reponed by the BL~1 <br />In w) omlng In FY98 <br /> <br />. <br />-- <br /> <br />The Coordinated Resource ~lanagement (CR~I) group established for ~tuddy Creek in 1996 <br />continued to be acme In ]998. fOCUSing on integrated watershed approaches to water quality and <br />salimi) Issues A SImIlar group is being considered for the Loco and Savery Creek tributaries (0 <br />the Lm]e Snake River <br /> <br />Workmg closely "'1Ch the CR~1 group. BL~1 is mOnitoring water quality In Liulefield and <br />~tcKlOne) Creeks and at two stal10ns on the malOSlem of ~luddy Creek A new water quality <br />monitoring program was also implementt:d on Savery Creek durmg FY98. <br /> <br />BL~t has Implemented rlparran and grazing management systems on ~luddy Creek that are <br />de~lgned ro Improve Tlparian v egetaliv e vigor. reduce salt loadmg, and Improve overal] WaleI' <br />qualll) <br /> <br />\Vnrk IS als~1 underwa) at the clo5oe of FY98 [0 nlo..My and improve the George Dew <br />\l, aiel' spreaders and dikes on ~tudd) Creek. The improvements WIll increase the effective life of <br />Ihe structures, further stablilze the channel of Muddy Creek, and reduce erosion and salinny Inputs <br />mto the mamslem of ~1uddy Creek <br /> <br />SaliM) redUC110n5o In the Kemmerer Resource Area In FY98 were achIeved prlmari]y through <br />ranie lnlprO\ements and lmpro\ed graZlng management practices on speCIfic grazing allotments. <br />.-\ctl\ Illes ...ilhin the Resource Area accounted for appro\imately ~60 of the 600-rons-per.year <br />reduction 10 5oalJOIt) reponed by the BL~1 in Wyoming Tnbutaries to the Green River include <br />Ham 50 Fork, Hor!.e Creek_ Ll1tle .'Iuddy Creek. ~luddy Creek. Ryckman Creek. and Willow <br />Cred; Kemmerer Resource Area saltnlC)' control measures dUTlng FY98 concentrated on the <br />\\"1110\\ Creek'Black's Fork watershed, the Cumberland/Uinta CR~t area (east side of the Bear <br />River DI\'h,je) and the ~1o\J Arch .\lll1gal1on Area The ~60-lOns-per-year salt savings should <br />contmue bey and the year ':015. <br /> <br />A CR~t group. active since 1995 and 1993. respecllve1y. on the Willow Creek and Cumberland <br />Allotments. expanded theIr activuy to FY98 to include Yellow Hollo\\. Creek Allormem. South <br />Horse Creek Allotment. Sonh Horse Creek AIlOlmem. and Half Seclion Horse Creek AI]otment. <br />The CR\t aCIlvlIies include' <br /> <br />. Deve]opment of a CR~1 plan for watershed Improvements to coordmation with (he Uinta <br />Coumy Conser-anon Distrlct. <br /> <br />. Implementation of nparian and ~razmg managemem systems to Improve overall water <br />quality and nparian \egetall\e vigor (The ImprO\ement in watershed management will <br />ImprO\e W..ller quallly and reduce salt loadmg.) <br /> <br />33 <br /> <br />- <br />