WSP00978

• File Number: 8271.300
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - General Information and Publications-Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 6/1/1982
• Title: Optimizing Salinity Control Strategies for the Upper Colorado River Basin
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Colorado River Basin . .

The Upper Colorado River Basin

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Schematic geologic cross-secdon throl'gh the Upper Colorado
River BasinCl\inerican Association of Petroleum Geolo'g:t~ts ':
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Areal extent of theprinlery sedimentary marine . shales and
sandstone in the Upper Colorado Rive~ Basin. (American
Association of Petroleum Geologists:, .1967 . and 1972)

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Map of average stream volume and tota~ dissolve~ solids
concentration of the. Colorad.o River at"ee '.s 'Ferry., Arizona
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Significant tar sands deposits in the Upper Colorado River
Basin. (Keefer and McQuivey, 197'9)' . . . . .

Salinity control projects designated:by PL 93-320 (USDI, BR,
1979a) . . . . . _ . . . . . . " . ;. . . . . . '. . . .

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Areuof irrigation development in the Upper Colorado Riv."r
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Oil shale deposits intheUpperColotado Rivlli:: .J>asin.CF1ug
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11 Known major uranium deposits in the Upper Colorado River Basin
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Surface water salinity concentrationS: in the Upper Colorado
River Basin (Price 'and Waddell, 191~) .. .

.Isohyetal map of average annualprecip:l.tation in the Upper
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Coal deposits in the .Upper. Colorado l~i"er Basin, (Flug et al.,
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