WSP01818

• File Number: 8271.200
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - Development and History - UCRB 13a Assessment
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 2/1/1990
• Author: Andrews and Steele
• Title: A Preliminary Assessment of Water-Quality Impacts of Emerging Energy Technologies on Selected Study Areas of the Upper Colorado River Basin
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

In order to investigate the likely effects of socioeconomic development

in the Upper Colorado River Basin by the year 2000 without the emerging energy

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study reaches were constructed to show the location of the mainstem and

tributary gaging stations. The study reaches are shown for the White River

(fig. 1); the Upper Colorado River (fig. 2); the San Juan River (fig. 3); the

Green River in Utah (fig. 4); the Green River in Wyoming (fig. 5); and the

Yampa River (fig. 6). Sediment-load budgets for these study reaches are

tabulated for the White River in table 4; the Upper Colorado River in table 5;

the San Juan River in table 6; the Green River in Utah in table 7; the Green

River in Wyoming in table B; and the Yampa River in table 9. In each table,

the inflow of sediment to the study reach at the upstream gaging station and

the outflow of sediment at the downstream gaging stations are shown. Depend-

ing upon the available data, the quantity of sediment delivered to the study

reach by tributary streams is also given. The estimated quantities of addi-

tional sediment which will be supplied to the study reaches due to population

growth and conventional coal utilization in the year 2000 are listed by source

and location.

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