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<br /> <br />"C" Loss rate <br />value (in/hr) <br /> <br /> <br />Table 3.2.--Lag coefficients and loss rates in relation to <br />elevation, vegetation, and soils <br /> <br />Colorado River Subbasins Northwest of Lakes Mead and Powell: <br />Below 5500 Steep Walled Rocky Canyons 0.8 0.10 <br /> Cottonwoods along Streams <br /> Scattered pinon and Juniper <br />5500 - 7000 Predominate Flat Desert 1.8 0.15 <br /> Plateaus, Sage and Grass on <br /> Hard Crusted Sandy Soils <br />7000 - 8000 Pinon-Juniper Forest 2.2 0.15 <br /> Mild Slopes with Crusted <br /> Sandy Soils <br />Above 8000 ponderosa pine Forests 2.5 0.15 <br /> Steeper Slopes with Crusted <br /> Sandy Soils <br /> <br />Little Colorado River Subbasins South and East of Lake Powell: <br /> <br />Elevation <br />(feet) <br /> <br />Below 4000 <br /> <br />4000 - 5500 <br /> <br />5500 - 7000 <br /> <br />Above 7000 <br /> <br />Vegetation/soils <br /> <br />Canyons and Rocky Cliffs <br />Little Vegetation <br />Very Steep, Very Hard <br /> <br />Plateaus and Flat Deserts <br />Scattered Sage and Grass <br />Thin Crusted Sandy Soil <br />Flat Terrain, some Rock <br />Formations <br /> <br />Pinon-Juniper Forest <br />Scattered Sage and Grass <br />Thin Crusted Very Sandy <br />Mild Slopes, Eroded Gullies <br /> <br />pine Forest with a <br />Fair Amount of Forest <br />Litter over Sandy Soils <br /> <br />37 <br /> <br />0.8 <br /> <br />0.10 <br /> <br />2.0 <br /> <br />0.25 <br /> <br />2.2 <br /> <br />0.20 <br /> <br />2.5 <br /> <br />0.25 <br />