WSP05057

• File Number: 8270.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Water Quality/Salinity -- Misc Water Quality
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1983
• Title: Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program - Status Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

CONTENTS - Continued

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Research and support studies . . . . . . .
Consortium study on economic impacts of
Evaporation pond research program
High recovery desalting . . . . . .
Reservoir dynamics ....... .
River basin model studies . . . . .
EET (emerging energy technologies). .
Colorado River solute trend study.

salinity

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108

Cooperative programs . . . . . 110
USDA's onfarm irrigation improvement program 110
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) . . . 116
Bureau of Land Management . . . . . . 117
U.S. Geological Survey. . . . . . . . 121
FWS (Fish and Wildlife Service) . . . . 121
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum and Colorado
River Basin Salinity Control Advisory Council . 121
Universities 122

References . . . . .

125

Tables

1 ' Sa 1 i n ity e f f e c t s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7
2 Population data for the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basins 8
3 Standards for the Colorado River . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4 Cost-effectiveness for Reclamation salinity control projects 18
5 Potential impacts of regulatory requirements. . . . . . . 24
6 Estimated salinity projections for 1990, mg/L . . . . . . 35
7 Schedule for salinity control program . . . . . . . . . . 37
~ 8 Investment and annual costs - local use energy development 38
9 Grand Valley Stage One statistics (updated to 1981 costs). 50
10 Estimated completion date of planning reports and draft
environmental statements . . . . . . 57
11 Candidate plans, Lower Gunnison Basin 61
12 Candidate plans, Uinta Basin. . . 66
13 McElmo Creek Unit preferred plan . . . . 74
14 Summary of estimated costs in Palo Verde
Irrigation District Unit. . . . . . . 78
15 Saline water sources for industrial use . 98
16 Summary of cost-effectiveness estimates for major study
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
17 Grand Valley water management and salinity control
accomplishments, SCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
18 Uinta Basin water management and salinity control
accomplishments, SCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
19 Estimated values for salt load contributed by natural and
irrigation return flow ground water, BLM . . . . . . . . 119

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