9513

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9513
• Author: Kuhn, G. and C. A. Williams.
• Title: Evaluation of Streamflow Losses Along the Gunnison River from Whitewater Downstream to the Redlands Canal Diversion Dam, near Grand Junction Colorado, Water Years 1995-2003.
• USFW Year: 2004.
• USFW - Doc Type: Reston, VA.
• Copyright Material: NO

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(See text for additional
explanation of box-
plotvalues.)
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WATER YEAR
Figure 9. Distribution of differences between moving 3-day daily mean discharge at the upstream and downstream
ends of the Gunnison River study reach when discharge at the below-Redlands-dam station is less than 2,000 cubic
feet per second, water years 1995-2003.