WSP04733

• File Number: 8027
• Description: - Section D General Correspondence - Federal Agencies ‎(Alpha, not Basin Related)‎
• State: CO
• Date: 9/14/1966
• Author: John W Odell
• Title: Report of the Water Resources Division - US Geological Survey
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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REPORT OF THE WATER RESOURCES DIVISION
U. S. Geological Survey
September 14, 1966

Runoff in Colorado has been quite variable during the summer.
Some flood damage occurred in isolated areas where severe thunderstorms
caused local flooding. Water supplies for the first eleven months of
the water year have varied from about 60% of normal to near normal based
on the 30-year reference period, 1931-60.

The following tabulation shows the percentage of normal for
representative gaging stations:

Station % of normal reference oeriod 1931-60
April May June. July August Oc tober 1965
to
Au"ust 1966
Animas River at Durango 125 120 70 89 85 99
Roaring Fork at Glenwood Spgs 112 92 50 65 80 77
Yarnpa River at Steamboat Spgs 72 78 26 46 64 64
Arkansas River at Canon City 151 110 62 97 135 95
Clear Creek near Golden 76 49 36 56 88 58

New gaging stations have been installed on Rock, Boulder, Slate,
Black, and Cataract Creeks in the Blue River Basin and on Chapman Gulch
in the Fryingpan River Basin. Additional stations will be installed on
Fish Creek and South Fork Elk River in the Yampa River Basin, Fryingpan
River at Meredith, Colorado River at De Beque. The station on Half Moon
Creek near Malta will he rebuilt to meet the standards for a hydrologic
bench mark. This will include a concrete control with provision for
heating to minimize ice effect during the winter.

Frank Welder of the Ground Water Branch and Gene Shuter of the
Denver Equipment Lab ran four packer tests on the USBM-AEC Colorado
Core Hole No. 2 on Dutch Creek in the Piceance Basin. The tr~nsmissibility
of the fractured oil shale is about 3,300 gallons per day per~foot.
Similar tests are planned on Core Hole No. 1 on Yellow Creek.

L. A. Wood and J, E. Moore were subpoenaed by the State to testify
in the State of Colorado vs. Roger Fellhauer hearing in Pueblo on
August 8-10. District Judge William B. Rhodes upheld the Colorado Water
Law and issued a temporary injunction.