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<br />. <br /> <br />.' c::> <br /> r:v <br /> c::> <br />. 'CV <br />. <br /> <br />and the Colorado Department of Game, Fish and Parks, donated rights-of- <br /> <br />way to plug the wells. <br />Well Flow Data <br /> <br />The Meeker well "3 miles east of Meeker contributed about 6 acre-feet <br /> <br />of 19,200 parts per million water (l52 tons of salt) per day to the White <br /> <br />River. This is about 0.0045 of the flow and 0.30 of the salt load of the <br /> <br />White River belo~ Meeker. Table 1 shows the ar~lysis of ,five samples ob- <br /> <br />tained by FWPCA and five samples by the Bureau of Reclamation. The F~A <br /> <br />did not mcasure the flow each time samples were obtained but estimated <br /> <br />that the flow from the well was a constant 3.l second-feet, the average of <br /> <br />several measurem8nts. The Bcrreau of Reclamation measured the flow with a <br /> <br />current meter'each time a sample was obtained. The flow was measured in a <br /> <br />narrow ch,mnel and could be in error by a :!- lO perce..t. About 46 percer.":. <br /> <br />of the salt load of the well was chloride, 32 percent sodium, and l7 per- <br /> <br />cent sulfate. The well contributed about 80 percent of the sodium, over <br /> <br />95 percent of the chlori~e, and about 15 percent of the sulfate in the <br /> <br />salt load of the .fuite River below Meeker. <br /> <br />F'IPCA obtained samples from the \'fuite River at the Geoloe;ical Surve;,' <br /> <br />gages, White River above Coal Creek and \fuite River below Meeker. The <br /> <br />gage, White River above Coal Creek, is about 3 miles upstreal11 from the <br /> <br />well" and the gage, White River belml Meeker, is about l3 miles do'mstre"," <br /> <br />!'rom the well. Table 2 shows comparisons of the anc.lyses of samples ob- <br /> <br />tained on the same day at the two gage sitcs which indicate thc.t the flow- <br /> <br />tug well contribu'ted nearly all of the sodium and chloride, 20 to 40 per- <br /> <br />cent of the sulfate, and about 50 percent of the pot~ssium picked up in <br /> <br />3 <br />