7285

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7285
• Author: Stewart, J. M.
• Title: Summary of Water-Resources Activities of the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado, Fiscal Year 1987.
• USFW Year: 1987.
• USFW - Doc Type: Open-File Report 87-388,
• Copyright Material: NO

CONTENTS

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Introduction-------------------------------------------------------------- 1

Mission of the U.S. Geological Survey------------------------------------- 2
Mission of the Water-Resources Division----------------------------------- 2
Cooperating agencies------------------------------------------------------ 4
Collection of water-resources data---------------------------------------- 6
Surface-water data--------------------------------------------------- 7
Ground-water data---------------------------------------------------- 7
Meteorological data-------------------------------------------------- 8
Interpretive hydrologic investigations------------------------------------ 8
CO-83-005 National trends network for monitoring atmospheric

deposition----------------------------------------------- 9

CO-78-007 Statewide water-use inventory------------------------------ 10
CO-77-097 Effects of sludge disposal on ground-water quality--------- 11
CO-80-131 Effects of energy-production emissions on Colorado lakes--- 12
CO-81-143 Upper Black Squirrel Creek basin digital model------------- 13
CO-81-146 Hydrology of the Closed Basin project area, San Luis
Valley, Colorado----------------------------------------- 14
CO-81-158 Regional aquifer system analysis of the Upper Colorado
River Basin in Colorado---------------------------------- 15
CO-82-159 Comprehensive hydrologic quantity and quality model of the
Arkansas River basin, Colorado--------------------------- 16
CO-82-164 Effects of projected urbanization on inflows to Cherry
Creek reservoir------------------------------------------ 17
CO-83-172 Assessment of water resources and related impacts resulting
from military training in the Pinon Canyon area, Colorado 18
CO-83-176 Statistical analyses and regionalization of national urban-
stormwater data base------------------------------------- 19
CO-84-180 Sources and movement of hazardous wastes in a heavily used
stream-aquifer system------------------------------------ 20
CO-84-181 Dissolved solids in the Colorado River Basin--------------- 21
CO-84-183 Preliminary assessment of methods for determination of
evaporation components by Water Resources Council (WRC)

subregions----------------------------------------------- 23

CO-84-184 An update of fluvial-sediment discharge to the oceans from
the United States---------------------------------------- 24
CO-84-186 Water quality of Kenney Reservoir-------------------------- 25
CO-84-187 Total sediment transport at reservoir sites in western

Colorado------------------------------------------------- 26

CO-84-192 Study of Colorado water-quality monitoring activities------ 28
CO-85-193 Wetland, ground-water, and surface-water relationships in a
subalpine valley in Grand County, Colorado--------------- 30
CO-85-194 Hydrologic response of the Denver Basin bedrock aquifers to
pumpage in northern El Paso County, Colorado------------- 31
CO-85-195 Transit losses along Fountain Creek associated with return
flows of transmountain water utilized by the city of
Colorado Springs----------------------------------------- 32
CO-85-196 Sediment-transport characteristics and their effects on
aquatic life in the Fountain Creek basin above Widefield,

Colorado------------------------------------------------- 34

CO-85-197 Ground-water-quality effects of soil application of sewage
sludge on farmland near Denver, Colorado----------------- 35

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