WSP00029

• File Number: 8271.300
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - General Information and Publications-Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 6/1/1976
• Title: Computer Simulation of Surface Water Hydrology and Salinity with and Application to Studies of Colorado River Management -- Part 2 of 2 -- Page 143 - end
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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TABLE 5.8
Control Variable Values -- DPL #3 (5.5 MAF/yr)
(Standard type indicates flow of water in MAF/mo; script type indicates flow of salts in MT/mo) *
Tributary or n
Location Units 3AN FE8 MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEe YEAR+
Co ora 0 MAP mo 0.02 O. 4 O. .12 O. 34 O. 5 , 47 a. 30 .9
Green MAF/mo 0.024 0.024 0.025 0.038 0.140 0.136 0.077 0.037 0.030 0.028 0.025 0.025 0.609
, San Juan MAP/mo 0.0 0.0 0.001 0.019 0.042 0.041 0.009 0.001 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.113
: San Raf. MAP/mo 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0,0 0.0 0.0 0,0 0.0 0.0
Colora 0 MAP mo 0.003 0.003 0.0 4 O. 17 5 .0 3 O. 1 5 O. 3 0.003 0,003 O. 3 .1
Green MAF/mo 0.037 0.033 0.041 0.069 0.046 0.059 0.032 0.020 0.018 0.054 0.046 0.031 0.486
San Juan MAP/mo 0.024 0.024 0.026 0.026 0.026 0.026 0.026 0.026 0.026 0.026 0.025 0.025 0.306
San Raf. MAP/mo 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.001 0.002 0.002 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0,0 0.0 0,005
Colera 0 MAP mo 0.0 0.0 0.0 O. 5 8 0.3 0.1 3 0.0 0,0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.
Green MAP/mo 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.050 0.445 0.346 0,149 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.990
San Juan MAP/mo 0.0 0.0 0,0 0.040 0,357 0.278 0,119 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.794
San Raf. MAP/mo 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Colora 0 >-IT mo
Green. MT/mo 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.042 0.370 0,288 0.124 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.824
San Juan MT/mo 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.045 0.403 0.374 0.734 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.896 t-'
San Raf. >-IT/mo 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0,0 0.0 0.0 '"
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Lake Powell MAP/mo 0.041 0.041 0.041 0.041 0.041 0.041 0.041 0,041 0.041 0.041 0.041 0.041 0.492
Above
Lake Powell MT/mo 0.056 0,056 0.056 0.056 0.056 0.056 0.056 0.056 0.056 0.056 0.056 0.056 0.672
Lake Powell MAP /mo 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.013 0.156
owe '0
Mead MAP mo 0,071 0.054 0.058 0.054 0.0 0.0 0.057 0.046 0,058 0.036 0.027 0.047 0.508
owe '0
Mead MT/mo 0.767 0.167 0.167 0.167 0.767 0.167 0.167 0.167 0.167 0.167 0.167 0.767 2.004
Lake Mead MAP /mo 0.023 0.023 0.023 0.023 0.023 0.023 0.023 0,023 0.023 0.023 0.023 0.023 0.262

Sources: Upper Colorado River Water Uses with Projected Depletions at Lee Ferry, USBR (undated. received Aug. 1971).
Ribbens. Richard W. and Wilson. Robert F., "Applications of a River Network Model to Water Quality
Investigations for the Colorado River." USBR (Denver, Colorado; 1973). Tables IX and X.
Upper Colorado Region Comprehensive Framework Study (1971); Table 2. page 24.
USBR, Quality of Water: Colorado River Basin, Progress Report No.5. (January, 1971), page 54.

1 ~F!)T = 1/233 km3/yr; 1 MT/yr = 900 Gg/yr.
Discrepancies between row totals and figures appearing in this column are due to rounding off
of monthly values.