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

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Table 4. Hydrologic characteristics for surface-water sampling sites in the Gore Creek watershed
[mi2, square miles; ft3/s, cubic feet per second; acre-ft/yr, acre-feet per year]
Site no. Station Period Drainage Mean Coefficient Mean 2.year, 10.year, 10-year
of record, annual of variation annual 7-day low- 7-day low.
(table 1, Site name identification area flood
fig, 5) number in calendar (mi2) streamflow of annual runoff flow value flow value (ft3/s)
years (W/s) streamflow (acre-ftlyr) (ft3/s) (ft3/s)
Gore Creek at Upper Station, 09065500 1947-56, 14.4 30.3 0.26 21,990 2.30 1.5 550
near Minturn, CO 1963-98
37 Black Gore Creek, near 09066000 1947-56, 12.6 17.4 .30 12,600 1.70 1.1 315
Minturn, CO 1963-98
38 Black Gore Creek, near Vail, CO 09066050 1974-79 19.6 27.3 .34 19,790 2.7 2.1 420
40 Bighorn Creek, near Minturn, CO 09066100 1963-98 4.54 10.1 .31 7,295 .63 .28 180
44 Pitkin Creek, near Minturn, CO 09066150 1966-98 5.32 11.8 .32 8,586 1.0 .4 194
45 Booth Creek, near Minturn, CO 09066200 1964-98 6.02 12.2 .28 8,864 .72 .35 249
10 Gore Creek at Vail, CO 09066250 1974-79 57.3 90.4 .31 65,490 4.6 3.9 1,484
55 Middle Creek, near Minturn, CO 09066300 1964-98 5.94 5.95 .37 4,310 .19 No flow 106
16 Gore Creek at Lower Station, 09066310 1988-98 77.1 122 .32 88,690 8.70 6.0 1,664
at Vail, CO
59 Red Sandstone Creek, near 09066400 1963-98 7.32 9.23 .29 6,688 .75 .44 191
Minturn, CO
29 Gore Creek at Mouth, near 09066510 11944-56, 102 140 .28 101,340 16.0 11.26 1,715
Minturn, CO 1995-98
IStreamflow data for the period 1944-56 are from discontinued station 09066500 located 0.4 mile upstream from station 09066510.