7409

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7409
• Author: U.S. Department of the Interior.
• Title: Quality of Water, Colorado River Basin.
• USFW Year: 1991.
• USFW - Doc Type: Progress Report No. 15,
• Copyright Material: NO

Contents-Continued

Price-San Rafael Rivers Unit (Reclamation and USDA) .............................................. 71
San Juan River Unit (Reclamation and USDA) ........................................................... 72

Reclamation.... ........................................................................................... ............. 72

USDA....................................................................................................................... 73
Sinbad Valley Unit (BLM and Reclamation) ................................................................. 73
Uinta Basin Unit (Reclamation and USDA) .................................................................. 73
Reclamation Phase I Study.................................................... ................................ 74
Reclamation Phase II Study.... ............ ...................... ..................................... ........ 74

USDA....................................................................................................................... 74
Virgin Valley Unit (USDA) ...................................... ............ ........ ............. ...... .......... ...... 74
Chapter 8. Salinity Projections.......... .................. ...................................... ............. ........ ................ 75

Methods ......................................................................................................................... 75
Initial Salinity Conditions ............................ ............................................................... ............ 75

Projections ......................................................................................................................... 76

Chapter 9. Special Studies.............................. .......... ................................ ...... ................................ 79

U.S. Department ofInterior-Salinity Research ................................................................... 79
Surge Irrigation Research and Demonstration Program - Grand Valley, Colorado ... 79
Sagers Wash and Castle Peak Rangeland Management Studies - Utah..................... 79
U.S. Department of Agriculture - Salinity Research ............................................................. 79
U.S. Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, California ..................................................................... 80
Soil Salinity Measuring, Inventory and Monitoring Instrumentation......................... 80
Mapping Salinity of Irrigated Areas...................................... ................ ................ ........ 80
IrrigationlDrainage Strategies to Reduce Water Pollution .......................................... 80
Predicting Water and Solute Movement in Cropped, Salt-Affected Soils .................... 81
Fixed-Gradient Methods for Estimating the
Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Soils.......................................... ........................ 81
ARS (Fort Collins, Colorado) Activities in the Grand Valley........................................ 81

Infiltration............................................................................................................... 81

Water Use.......... .............. ................ ........ .................. ...... .......... .............................. 82

References Cited............................................................................................................................... 83

General References........................................................................................................................... 85

Appendix A-Quality of Water Tables .... ........ .......................... .................. ........ ..................... ...... A-1

Tables

1. Comparison of River Basin and Runoff .................................................................................. 5
2. Average Water Use in the Colorado River Basin for 1976-80............................................... 16
3. Colorado River Depletion Projections ............................ ........ ...... ............................... ............ 28
4. 1990 Salinity Control Program ........ ............................................ ........................................... 58

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