WSP07419

• File Number: 8270.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Water Quality/Salinity -- Misc Water Quality
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1973
• Author: USDOI
• Title: Quality of Water - Colorado River Basin - Progress Report No. 6 - January 1973
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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C0~TINTS (Contir..ued)

Water quality improvement program (continued)
B. Accomplishments in the Lower Colorado hegion
1. LaVerkin Springs, Utah.
2. Blue Spring, Arizona. . . . . . . . .
3. Litt.lefield Springs, Arizor!a. . . . . .
4. Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona-
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. Palo Verie Irrigation District, California.
C. Accornplisr.J!lents at the Engineering ami
Research Center . . . .
1. ~atherratical model. . .
2. Economic analysis
3. Institutional and legal review.
4. Ion exchange. . .
Other water quality aspects
A. Pollution sources other than salinity.
1. Municipal wastes. .
2. Industrial wastes .
3. Agricultural wastes
4. ~tine drainage . . .
B. Water quality parameters other than salinity
1. Dissolved oxygen.
2. Temperature .
3. pH. . . . . . .
4. Heavy metals. .
5. Toxic materials
6. Nutriep.ts . .
7. Bacteria. . .
8. Radioactivity
9. Mercury . . .
10. Sediment. . .
Effect of impoWlcbnents on Colorado River.
A. ~ater quality in and below Flaming Gorge
Reservoir and Lake Powell . . . . . . .
1. Fla~ng Gorge Reservoir . . . . . .
~~lity of water in the reservoir
Leaching in the re servoir . . .
Stratification in the reservoir
Effects of closure on the ~reen River
near Greendale . . .
2. Lake Powell . . . . . .
Effects of closure on the Colorado River
at Lees Ferry. , . .
Colorado River below Hoover Dam

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