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 8.--Summary of total transport rate computations

tation name

tation
No.

ate

ime

idth
(feet)

Discharge
(cubic
feet
per
second)

Mean
velocity
(feet
per
second)

ean
depth
(feet)
Measured
bedload
transport
rate
(tons per
day) Measured
suspended-
sediment
transport
rate
(tons per
day) Total
transport
rate,
Colby's
method
(tons per
day)
Total
transport
rate
(measured)
(tons per
day)

ercentage
difference
Big Sandy River at 09212500 6-13-78 1330 64 612 3.78 2.53 8.92 74 --- --- ---
Leckie Ranch, near 6-22-78 1300 75 737 4.07 2.41 22.61 64 --- --- ---
Big Sandy 7-19-78 1100 63 263 2.69 1.55 .74 7 --- --- ---

N Big Sandy River 09213500 6-15-78 1000 90 864 2.45 3.92 313 9,700 11,103 10,013 - 9.8
near Farson 6-23-78 1130 90 656 2.41 3.02 156 5,190 6,273 5,346 -14.8
7-19-78 1645 87 260 2.28 1.31 98.3 98 264 196 -25.8
Little Sandy Creek 09214500 6-15-78 1530 21 105 1.74 2.87 21.4 440 526 461 -12.4
above Eden 6-24-78 1445 22 115 1.77 2.95 26.5 110 154 137 -11.0
7-19-78 1400 18 68 1.61 2.35 6.23 28 48 34 -29.2
Big Sandy River 09216000 6-12-78 1130 30 22 1.41 .52 14.6 3 11 17.6 +37.5
below Eden 6-21-78 1500 48 46 1.65 .58 51.1 16 47 67 +42.6
Big Sandy River at 09216050 6-12-78 1045 54 35 1.45 .45 38.3 16 44 54 +22.7
Casson Bridge, 6-21-78 1230 56 71 1.70 .75 62.4 45 101 107.4 + 6.3
near Eden