7344

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7344
• Author: Veenhuis, J. E. and D. E. Hillier.
• Title: Impact of Reservoir-Development Alternatives on Streamflow Quantity in the Yampa River Basin, Colorado and Wyoming.
• USFW Year: 1982.
• USFW - Doc Type: Lakewood, Colorado.
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 1.--Monthly evaporation rates used for reservoirs ~n the Yampa River basin

[Modified from Ficke and others (1976); values for November through March are estimated]

Reservoir Elevation, Monthly evaporation rate, in inches
near in feet
Denver, above sea Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept
Colo. 1eve1l
Antero----- 8,778 3.30 3.30 1.60 0 0 0 0 4.30 4.40 3.80 3.50 3.50
Di 110n----- 9,017 4.50 3.50 1. 70 0 0 0 0 3.20 4.00 5.20 5.50 5.90
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Canyon--- 8 , 597 4.60 4.00 2.00 0 0 0 0 4.00 5.30 5.70 5.90 6.30
Gross------ 7,282 3.70 3.30 1.60 0 0 0 4.13 4.30 4.70 4.90 5.60 3.80
Ra1ston---- 6,046 4.65 4.31 3.44 0 0 0 0 2.97 2.88 2.74 3.07 3.41
lNationa1 Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD of 1929) .