WSP06075

• File Number: 8200.760
• Description: Yampa River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 4/1/1976
• Author: USGS
• Title: An Environmental Assessment of Impacts of Coal Development on the Water Resources of the Yampa River Basin - Colorado and Wyoming - Phase-II Work Plan
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

Tab Ie 1. --Summa'l'lJ of Phase-I projeCJt work eZements

Code Work element

Principals involved

I-A, PhysIcal setting

Project staff, Lakewood, Colo,

I-B. Current and future energy-
resource development plans

Project staff, Lakewood, Colo,

i-C, Related socioeconomic
aspects

Project staff, Lakewood, Colo., and
systems-analysis group, Reston, Va.

I-D. Basinwide water-resources
appraisal

Project staff, Lakewood, Colo.

I-E, Waste-assimilative-capacIty
modelin9 analysis

Project staff, Lakewood, Colo,; systems-
analysIs group, Reston, Va,; U,S.
Env i ronmet\!ta 1 Protect i on Agency; and
Colorado Department of Health,

The purposes of th Is report are: (1) To desc ribe the I" rogram obj ect i ves
of the Vampa River basin assessment, and (2) to outl ine the methodologies in
~arrying out the Phase-II investigations. The project is coordinating field
activities and interpretative analyses with other related studies, both within
and outs ide the U,S. Geological Survey. This work-plan report serves as an
information guide in implementing the proposed Phase-J I work tasks of the
assessment.

During 1975, a. Regi.onal Residuals-management study (referred to in this
report as the residuals-management analysis) has been performed by the U,S,
Geological Survey (1976.), This research-oriented analysis seeks to defIne the
relationships between water use. the prIces of raw materIals, and the costs of
modifying resIduals to meet environmental standards. ResIduals management
.identlfies and evaluates strategies for reducing or modifying discharge of
waste materials in order to meet environmental-qual ity goals,. The residuals-
management approach con.centrates on coal mining and conversion to electricity
or gas products. The study, which deals with plant-level processe.s, provI'des
an analytical basis to assess the impact of coal-resource development on re-
gional water resources arnd envIronmental quality. Certain compon.ents of this
first-phase residuals-management analysis will provide inp.ut to the Vampa
RI ver bas in assessment.

Both projects pres.ently are entering second phases of their respective
. studies. This project work plan describes several of the coordlnated work
a'Ctivities of the two. projects.

ACKNOWLE DGMEN T

The contributIons .of Emil O. Attanasi., Thomas Maddock III, and Richard A,
:Smith and the support of N. C. Matalas in the preparation of this work-plan
'report are g.ratefullya.cknowl edged.

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