9342

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9342
• Author: Wynn, K. H., N. J. Bauch and N. E. Driver.
• Title: Gore Creek Watershed, Colorado--Assessment of Historical and Current Water Quantitiy, Water Quality, and Aquatic Ecology, 1968-98.
• USFW Year: 2001.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver.
• Copyright Material: NO

Most of the data used in assessing the water-quantity,
water-quality, and aquatic-ecology conditions in the
Gore Creek watershed were obtained from three
sources: (1) the USGS, (2) the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment, Water Quality Control
Division, and (3) the Eagle River Water and Sanitation
District. A large part of the available data from the
USGS was collected since 1995, as part of the USGS
Upper Colorado River Basin (UCOL) National Water-
Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program, and through
a cooperative agreement between the USGS, the Town
of Vail, the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District,

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and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority. Addi-
tional information from numerous published reports
pertaining to various aspects of water-quantity, water-
quality, and aquatic-ecology conditions in the Gore
Creek watershed are discussed in this report to aid in
the interpretation and understanding of historical and
present conditions in the watershed.
Water-quantity, water-quality, or aquatic-ecology
data were collected at surface-water sites. The sites are
listed as site numbers 1-66 in table 1 and are shown in
figures 5 and 6. Sites, such as site 29, where surface-
water quality and aquatic-ecology samples were

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Figure 5. Surface-water-quality sampling sites in the Gore Creek watershed.

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