FLOOD08266

• County: Eagle
• Stream Name: Eagle River
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Proposed Homogeneous Stream Reaches for Template Cross-Sections on Eagle River
• Date: 1/1/1987
• Prepared For: Eagle Creek
• Prepared By: USGS
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Community File

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Proposed "Homogeneous" Stream Reaches
for "Template" Cross-Sections
on Eagle River and Colorado River
in Eagle County

(1 st draft)

Eagle River Reaches
1) Upstream limit (above Minturn) - Confluence with Gore Creek 3.5 mi.
2) Confluence with Gore Creek - Confluence with Beaver Creek 5.0 mi. (8.5)
3) Confluence with Beaver Creek - Yz mile upstream of Edwards bridge 3.5 mi. (12.0)
4) Edwards area (SPECIAL CASE) 2.0 mi. (14.0)
5) Below Edwards - Base of Bellyache Ridge 2.5 mi. (16.5)
6) Base of Bellyache Ridge - Yz mile downstream of Wolcott 3.0 mi. (19.5)
7) Yz mile downstream of Edwards bridge - Upstream end of Red Canyon 2.5 mi. (22.0)
8) Red Canyon (SPECIAL CASE) 2.5 mi. (24.5)
9) Downstream end of Red Canyon - Eagle bridge 4.0 mi. (28.5)
10) Eagle bridge - Gypsum bridge (SKIP; ALREADY MAPPED)
11) Gypsum bridge - Yz mile downstream of Eagle River Estates 2.5 mi. (31.0)
12) Yz mile downstream of Eagle River Estates - Dotsero lava pile 2.5 mi. (33.5)
13) Dotsero lava pile (SPECIAL CASE) 1.0 mi. (34.5)
14) Dotsero lava pile - Confluence with Colorado River 0.5 mi. (35.0)

Colorado River Reaches
1) Confluence with Eagle River - Gaging station
2) Gaging station - Upstream end of Glenwood Canyon
3) Upstream end of Glenwood Canyon - Garfield County line

1.5 mi.
2.5 mi. (4.0)
0.5 mi. (4.5)

Note: These reaches were defined by reviewing the USGS quadrangle maps for the
study reach. I will refine them by looking at the river slope (from the quads)
and at the aerial photographs. I would appreciate any inputfrom Larry, Tom
or Carolyn.