7049

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7049
• Author: Andrews, E. D.
• Title: Present and Potential Sediment Yields In THe Yampa River Basin, Colorado and Wyoming.
• USFW Year: 1978.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 2.--,r;urmnary of mcan-amnwZ DtrcamflcJ1., and compu.ted sc(Hmcnt load at; DcZcct:ed
[;tream-(1a(1ing stations in the .Yamra River bar;in, Colorado and T-!yoming--Con t i nucd

U.S. Geo- Mean- t1ct:ln-8nnUll I sed i men t load,
Site logical Drainage annual in tons2
number Survey Station area discharge ~1
on fig- s ta t ion name (square (cubic Suspended- Total-
ure 1 1 number mil es) feet per -\sed i men t Bedload sediment
second) load load I
42B 09245500 North Fork of Elkhead Creek 21 17 1,300 490 1 ,800
Elkhead, CO. ,
near
1'3 09245000 Elkhcad Creek near Eikhead, 61, 53 11, 000 5,900 17,000
co.
.' .'
VJ 47 09244410 River ,below diver- 1,430 1 ,100 JO,OOO 38,000
Yampa 110,000
sion, nea r Hayden, CO.
:l.
LIB 0921,11300 l.i '-ossy Creek near Hount 26 1.4 2,380 320 2,700
II (I" I' i ,; , CO.
S8 OCJ7.J17500 flk River ne.lr hllll , CO--- II15 593 7,600 18,000 76,000
59 09241000 Elk River at Clark, co----- 206 336 5;200 .'Il, 11 ,000 16,000
64 09239500 Yampa River at Steamboat 60J~ 468 11 ,000 3,700 15,000
Springs, CO.

lSite designations used by Steele, Bauer, Wentz, and Warner (1978).
~Sediment loads have been rounded to two significant figures.

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