WSP06933

• File Number: 8272.500
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Colo Dept of Public Health - WQCC and WQCD
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1989
• Author: WQCD
• Title: Colorado Nonpoint Assessment Report - November 1989
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

.......',..1
:>--:
":"'"

M
"'1 (,Q
~i~ ~.,'
i:J WI

fl'
....
~;.;
t':'

~';j
.~')j
;.~':~~
>.:.~

'!';.".
Rt
>,:."

Nonpoint Source Problems by River.Basin
Several major river systems, the Arkansas, COlorado, the Rio Grande, and the

Platte originate in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, figure 1. The Republican

River, a tributary of the Missouri, has its headwaters on the eastern plains

of Colorado. For the purpose of this assessment, each of these systems is

considered a hydrologic basin except for the Colorado River which is

subdivided into three sub-basins: the Colorado, the Green, and the San Juan.

The State's river basins vary greatly in size and population as shown in Table

1. There are no rivers that form borders between Colorado and contiguous
~j
~1 states.. Colorado's physical location, at the headwaters of these important

~\ water resources, increases the importance of water quality efforts in the
\:<'1
~~~~
State.

i~l

}sJ

~}~1
;~'l
~,:;'"

F.1
i;i:~

E~
t~~

~~

~"~;!

,-.

,:."
}~~1

::-::,~

-47-