Physical History of the Platte River in Nebraska

• Description: related to the Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎,
• State: NE
• State: CO
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 8/1/2000
• Author: Simon & Associates, Inc.
• Title: Physical History of the Platte River in Nebraska: Focusing Upon Flow, Sediment Transport, Geomorphology, and Vegetation
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

Table 2.1
History of canal construction in the Platte River Basin, 1851 -1930 '
Data compiled from Biennial Reports of the State Engineer of Colorado, 1883 -1926; unpublished data from the files of the State Engineer of Colorado in Denver.
Biennial Reports of the Department of Water Resources, Nebraska, 1913 -1932; 2"d Annual Report of the Territorial Engineer, Wyoming, 1889; Biennial Reports of the
State Engineer of Wyoming, 1893 -1930; Tabulation of Adjudicated Water Rights, State of Wyoming, Water Division Number One, 1965.
Z Numbers are based on appropriations to new canals or additional appropriations to existing canals exceeding 0.3 cubic meters per second.
3 Based on recorded date of appropriation decree.
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Number of new canals constructed or existing canals enlarged
Date of
River
earliest
1851 -1860
1861 -1870
1871 -1880
1881 -1 990
1891 -1900
1901 -1910
1911 -1920
1921 -1930
canal;
South Platte River Basin
Cache la Poudre River and tributaries.
1
37
85
37
1
46
14
7
1860
Lodgepole Creek and tributaries........
0
0
31
75
28
26
10
13
1873
Big Thompson River and tributaries...
0
32
29
6
0
8
3
2
1861
Bear Creek and tributaries ...............
2
22
4
3
0
3
7
14
1859
South Platte River and tributaries
below mouth of the Cache la Poudre
River, except Lodgepole Creek.........
0
21
61
104
28
126
55
32
1868
South Platte River and minor
tributaries above mouth of the Cache
la Poudre ...................................
25
264
323
139
6
104
52
28
1860
Total, South Platte Basin............
28
376
533
364
63
313
141
96
North Platte River e Basin
Big Laramie River and tributaries......
0
8
98
467
148
263
119
29
1868
Sweetwater River and tributaries.......
0
0
2
43
55
117
46
17
1880
North Platte River, Nebraska ...........
0
0
0
16
36
5
7
1
1888
Tributaries to North Platte River,
Nebraska .... ...............................
0
0
0
19
51
30
24
13
North Platte River, Wyoming...........
0
0
2
32
15
47
25
17
1875
Tributaries to North Platte River,
Wyoming, except Sweetwater and Big
Laramie River ..........................
0
9
91
740
410
801
436
161
North Platte River and minor
tributaries, Colorado .....................
0
0
1
310
10
128
75
11
1880
!�
Total, North Platte Basin ...........
0
17
194
1627
725
1391
732
249
Platte River
Basin (except
North and
South Platte)
Platte River tributaries above the
Loup River ................................
0
0
0
1
3
0
6
53
Platte River above the Loup River .....
0
0
0
2
7
0
3
16
1882
Total, Platte Basin above the
Loup River . ...............................
0
0
0
3
10
0
9
69
Data compiled from Biennial Reports of the State Engineer of Colorado, 1883 -1926; unpublished data from the files of the State Engineer of Colorado in Denver.
Biennial Reports of the Department of Water Resources, Nebraska, 1913 -1932; 2"d Annual Report of the Territorial Engineer, Wyoming, 1889; Biennial Reports of the
State Engineer of Wyoming, 1893 -1930; Tabulation of Adjudicated Water Rights, State of Wyoming, Water Division Number One, 1965.
Z Numbers are based on appropriations to new canals or additional appropriations to existing canals exceeding 0.3 cubic meters per second.
3 Based on recorded date of appropriation decree.
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