9568

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9568
• Author: Resource Consultants Inc.
• Title: Sediment Transport Studies of the Little Snake, Yampa, and Green River Systems.
• USFW Year: 1991.
• USFW - Doc Type: Fort Collins, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

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Figure 3.7 1989 Measured bed material load (sum of bed load
and suspended sand load).

Table 3.2 Sediment data collected by the USGS at the Lily site during 1983.
UTILE SNAKE RIVER NEAR UL Y, CO 09260000
I CONCENTRATION I I SEDIMENT DISCHARGE I
Total Suspend. Total Sed. Wash Sand
Dis- Percent Concen- Wash Sand Discharge Load Load
Sample charge Silt/Clay tration Cone. Cone.
Number Date Time (cfs) (%) (mglL) (mglL) (mglL) (tons/day) (tons/day) (tons/day)
Column (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
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1 2-23-83 950 249 58% 954 553 401 641 372 269
2 3-16-83 1130 1210 91% 7630 6943 687 24927 22684 2243
3 4-06-83 1030 327 76% 1570 1193 377 1386 1053 333
4 5-10-83 1100 3420 83% 4700 3901 799 43400 36022 7378
5 5-25-83 1030 4620 67% 3000 2010 990 37422 25073 12349
6 6-07-83 1020 5210 51% 1880 959 921 26446 13487 12959
7 6-24-83 1240 4340 48% 1060 509 551 12421 5962 6459
8 7-15-83 1110 937 27% 516 139 377 1305 352 953
9 8-()4-83 1120 365 85% 538 457 81 530 451 80

J.G. Elliott, J. E. Kircher, and P. von Guerard
Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4141
Sediment Transport in the Lower Yampa River, Northwestern Colorado

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