WSP10328

• File Number: 8273.400
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Federal Agencies - Bureau of Land Management
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/27/2002
• Author: Schumm and Gregory
• Title: Diffuse-Source Salinity -- Mancos Shale Terrain
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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1-1 Effect of annual runoff on dissolved load (a) dissolved-
solid and concentration (b) in surface waters........... 4

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~istribution of saline (>1000 ppm) surface waters within
the conterminous United states (after Geraghty et al,
1973) . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Map of the Upper Colorado River Basin showing the loca-
tion of some study areas (after Shen et al, 1981)........

Quality of surface water in the upper Colorado River
Basin (after Price and Wadell, 1973).....................

Mean long-term solute, sediment and water discharges,
expressed as percentages of the combined solute, sediment
ahd water discharges of the Colorado and paria Rivers at
Lees Ferry, Arizona (after Iorns, Hembree and Oakland,
1965),10 . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . 10 . . 10 . . .

Geologic cross section of the Grand Valley (after
S,chrieider, 1975)....... 10 . . . 10 . . 10 . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mean annual precipitation and potential evaporation in
the Grand River Basin (after Iorns, Hembree, and Oakland,
1965)........10........................................ 10"

Effect of precipitation on sediment yield as determined
from reservoir surveys (from Langbein and Schumm, 1958),.

The relation between salinity (TDS in mg/ll and electri-
cal conductance (EC) (after Laronne, 1977)...............

Dissolution kinetics of Mancos Shale alluvium. Salinity
increases with mixing time (after Laronne, 1981).........

Effect of particle size on rate of salt release from West
$alt Creek alluvium-sample G86l. Salinity increases with
decreasing sediment size (after Laronne, 1977)...........

Location map, Grand Valley, Western Colorado (from
Johnson, 1982).10......................... 10 . . . . . . . 10 . 10 . . . . .

Location of Johnson's (1982) study basins and cross sec-
tion locations, Grand Valley, Western Colorado (from
Johnson, 1982)............ 10 . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . .

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