WSP03533

• File Number: 8200.760
• Description: Yampa River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 1/1/1985
• Author: USGS
• Title: Selected Trace-Element Data for Streams in the Southern Yampa River Basin - North-Western Colorado - 1985
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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These trace elements (except phosphorus) were analyzed for total, dissolved,
and suspended concentrations.

The location of each water-quality sampling site is shown in figure 1,
ahd a description of each site is given in table 1. Surface-water gaging
stations in the study area where both sediment and water-quality data were
already available are described in table 2. There are additional surface-
water gaging stations in the study area that are not listed in. table 2 or
shown in figure 1 because they record only streamflow. Many stations listed
in table 2 are on the main stem of the Yampa River or its principal tributary,
the Williams Fork. These stations are part of the long~term gaging network of
the U.S. Geological Survey. Many of the surface-water gaging stations on the
smaller tributaries in the study area were operated in cooperation withU.S;
Bureau of Land Management as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Coal Hydrology
Program. .

Data collected at the study sites are listed in table 3. Water-quality
constituents and properties determined from samples collected at U.S. Geo-
logical Survey surface-water gaging stations are listed in table 4. Data are
listed only for the same constituents collected at the study sites. Water-
quality data collected prior to water year 1976, and for additional water-
qualty constituents, are available for some of these stations and are pub-
lished annually in a series of the U.S. Geological Survey water-dats reports
entitled "Water Resources Data--Colorado."

A statistical summary of the constituents reported in tables 3 and 4 is
given in table 5. This table contains a summary for six surface-water gaging.
ststions located on the Yampa River, the Williams Fork, and Good .Springs.
Creek. Many samples were collected at these six stations; therefore, only a
summary of the data is given, which includes the number. of samples, the mean,
the standard deviation, and the range of each constituent for.the period of
record. The actual data are stored in WATSTORE, the U.S. Geological Survey's
national water data storage. and retrieval system.

The following abbreviations and symbols are used in tables 1 through 5.

OC is degrees Celsius;
E is estimated;
ft3/s is cubic feet per second;
~S/cm is microsiemens per centimeter;
mg/L is milligrams per liter;.
N is number of water-quality samples;
ND is not determined;
mi2 is square miles; and
ton/d is tons per day.

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