WSP04572

• File Number: 8271.300
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - General Information and Publications-Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1981
• Author: R Evans W Walker
• Title: Optimizing Salinity Control Strategies for the Upper Colorado River Basin -- Part 1 of 2 - Title page - 186 -- Abstract - Bibliography
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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implement the most cost-effective salinity control program
in an area.
At the planning level, the sources of salinity must be
identified in conjunction with the detriments associated
with salinity contributions. If the damages are more costly
than the measures required to alleviate the problem, a
salinity control project is needed.
The total salinity contributions for the various areas
and subbasins in the UCRB have been tabulated in four main
reports. The report by Iorns et al. (1965) is the most
complete and is generally the most useful. The second set
of reports of consequence are the biennial progress reports
on the Quality of the Colorado River Basin by the Water and
Power Resource Service (USDI, BR, 1979a). These reports
describe each of the salinity control projects and tabu-
late the existing stream gaging station data. These reports
extend the data of Iorns et al. (1965) to the present. The
third report was compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protec-
tion Agency and others (EPA, 1971) and presents the results
of a limited study (June, 1965 - May, 1966). The specific
data and conclusions presented in this report often widely
disagree with other published results. Finally, the study
by Hyatt et al. (1970), which was developed from an elec-
trical analog computer model of the upper Colorado River
Basin, schematically presents the water and salt flows of
the basin. Again, these results agree very well with
aggregated results of other studies, but the individual