8259

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8259
• Author: Kircher, J. E.
• Title: Sediment Transport and Source Areas of Sediment and Runoff, Big Sandy River Basin, Wyoming.
• USFW Year: 1982.
• USFW - Doc Type: Water-Resources Investigations 81-72,
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 4.--Streamflow characteristics at gaging stations
Period of Period of Drainage Mean annual
streamflow sediment-load area discharge
record record (square (cubic feet Factors affecting
Station name Station No. (water years) (water years) miles) per second) natural flow

Big Sandy River at Leckie 09212500 1910, 1911,
Ranch, near Big Sandy 1939-77
Big Sandy River near 09213500 1914-17,
Farson 1920-24,
1926-34,
1953-77
Little Sandy Creek near 09214000 1939-71
Elkhorn
Little Sandy Creek
above Eden
Pacific Creek near
Farson
Big Sandy River
below Eden
Big Sandy River at
Gasson Bridge, near
Eden
09214500 1954-77
09215000 1954-73
09216000 1954-77
09216050 1972-77
1975-77 94 86.0 Diversion for irrigation
of about 50 acres upstream
from station.
1971-77 322 86.5 Diversion for irrigation
of about 1,000 acres above
station.
--- 20.9 21.2 Transbasin diversion of
water from Little Sandy
Creek to Sweetwater River
(appropriation permits total
22.71 cubic feet per second).
Diversion for irrigation of
680 acres.
1971-77 134 18.7 Diversion upstream from station
for irrigation of about 1,720
acres of which about 150 acres
are downstream from station.
1971-73 500 4.99 Diversion for irrigation
of 50 acres upstream from
station. Water is imported
into the basin from Sweetwater
River.
1971-77 1,610 46.6 Natural flow of stream affected
by storage reservoirs and diver-
sion for irrigation of about
19,300 acres.
1975-77 1,720 70.9 Do.