WSP10815

• File Number: 8270.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Water Quality/Salinity -- Misc Water Quality
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1963
• Author: USDOI
• Title: Quality of Water - Upper Colorado River Basin - Progress Report - January 1963
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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l'reciri tstion
rar.i.ge
( bcr:es )
bG-70
5C-60
40-50
3D-40
25-30
20-25
16-28
12-16
10-12
8-10
6-8
4-6

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r:.ean :rearly preci~:tatio!:. ic. the
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1,315
7,271
s.906
9,071
13,911
23,634
15,201
15,~:7
14.126
1.129

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total 'lrea
0.01,
,34
1.66
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8.2'3
12.70
2l.51
13.88
2..4.0,3
12.90
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cli~atcloeic stati~r.~.

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froJ:l. wuter" surfaces in ~il<:~' '1:''r,er Cclorr.}c,
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