8221

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8221
• Author: Van Steeter, M. M.
• Title: Historic and Current Processes Affecting Channel Change and Endangered fish Habitats of the Colorado River Near Grand Junction, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Doctor of Philosophy.
• Copyright Material: NO

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2.1 Characteristics of the 15 and 18 mile reach of the Colorado

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3.1 Changes in peak and mean annual flows for selected
gauges in the upper Colorado River basin-------------------29

3.2 Reservoirs with a normal capacity greater than 5,000
acre-feet located above the 18 mile reach of the Colorado

River--------------------------------34

3.3 Frequency of daily flows at the Cameo gauge for 1934-48,
1949-63,1964-78, and 1979-93-----------------------------46

3.4 Decrease in peak flow of selected regulated rivers in the
upper Colorado River basin_______________________________________A7

4.1 Discharge at which aerial photographs were taken------------56

4.2 The effect of changes in discharge on water surface area---__57

4.3 Estimates of the potential magnitude of error by three
d ifferen t meth ods-----___________________________________________________ 60

4.4 Changes in channel features in the Grand Valley,

1937 -1993-------__________________________________________------------------- 62

4.5 Changes in channel features in the Grand Valley,

19 54-1968-----------____________________________________--___________________ 63

4.6 Percent change in instream water, island, and side
channel/backwater area for 1937-93 and 1954-68----------------67