2003

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 2003
• Author: U.S. Department of the Interior.
• Title: Quality of Water, Colorado River Basin.
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: Progress Report No. 12,
• Copyright Material: NO

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CONTENTS (Continued)

Colorado River Salinity Control Program (Continued)
C. U.S. Department of Agriculture. . . .
1. Title I, Welton-Mohawk Irrigation and
Drainage District . . . . . . . . . .
2. Title II, General. . . . . . . .
a. Irrigation Salt Source Area Studies .
b. Implementation. . . . . . .
c. Extension Education. . . . . . . .
3. Progress 'on monitoring and evaluation
D. State salinity discharge permitting . . . . .

Salinity projections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A. Me t hod s . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
B. Evaluation of salinity and salinity control .
1. Natural variations in salinity. . . . .
2. Effect of salinity control. . . . .
C. Calculation of project impact at Imperial Dam

Special studies ..........
A. Bureau of Reclamation studies .
1. Salinity trend study. . . . .
2. Reservoir studies . . . . . . . . . .
a. Flaming Gorge eutrophication study. .
b. The limnology of reservoirs on the
Colorado River. . . . . . . . . .
c. Chemical precipitation in Lakes
Powell and Mead . . . . . . . . .
3. Geochemical investigations. . . . . .
a. Big Sandy River Salinity Control Unit
b. Dirty Devil River Salinity Control Unit .
c. Nuclear Waste Repository Investigation
at Gibson Dome. . . . . . . . . . .
4. Saline water cooling system verification

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5. Salinity health impacts. . . . . . . . .
6. Impact of depletion schedules on salinity
projections . . . . . . . . .
7. Colorado River Enhanced Snowpack Test. .
B. Geological Survey studies . . . . . . . . . .
1. Ground water return flows to the lower
Colorado River. . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. Consumptive use of water by vegetation,
lower Colorado River. . . . . . . .
3. Sediment study in Grand Canyon . . . .
4. Water resources monitoring--Gunnison, Mon-
trose, and Delta Counties, Colo.. .
5. Stream water resource impacts of energy
development within the White River Basin,
Colorado and Utah . . . . . . . . . . . .
6. Modeled impacts of surface coal mining on
dissolved solids in the Yampa River Basin,

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