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Accounting for Consumptive Use of Lower Colorado River Water in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah Accounting for Consumptive Use of Lower Colorado River Water in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah
In the Colorado River valley between the east end of Lake Mead and the international boundary with Mexico (see figure), the river is the principal source of water for agricultural, domestic, municipal, industrial, hydroelectric-power generation, and recreational purposes. Water is stored in surface reservoirs and in the river aquifer---permeable sediments and sedimentary rocks that fill...
Authors
Sandra J. Owen-Joyce, Richard P. Wilson
Method to identify wells that yield water that will be replaced by Colorado River water in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah Method to identify wells that yield water that will be replaced by Colorado River water in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah
Accounting for the use of Colorado River water is required by the U.S. Supreme Court decree, 1964, Arizona v. California. Water pumped from wells on the flood plain and from certain wells on alluvial slopes outside the flood plain is presumed to be river water and is accounted for as Colorado River water. A method was developed to identify wells outside the f1ood plain of the lower...
Authors
Richard P. Wilson, Sandra J. Owen-Joyce
Determining the source of water pumped from wells along the lower Colorado River Determining the source of water pumped from wells along the lower Colorado River
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Authors
Richard P. Wilson, Sandra J. Owen-Joyce
Streamflow and sediment-transport data, Colorado River and three tributaries in Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1983 and 1985-86 Streamflow and sediment-transport data, Colorado River and three tributaries in Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1983 and 1985-86
The U.S. Geological Survey collected streamflow and sediment-transport data at 5 streamflow-gaging stations on the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead as a part of an interagency environmental study. The data were collected for about 6 mo in 1983 and about 4 mo in 1985-86; data also were collected at 3 sites on tributary streams in 1983. The data were used for...
Authors
W. B. Garrett, E.K. van de Vanter, J.B. Graf
Accounting System for Water Use by Vegetation in the Lower Colorado River Valley Accounting System for Water Use by Vegetation in the Lower Colorado River Valley
The Colorado River is the principal source of water in the valley of the Colorado River between Hoover Dam and the international boundary with Mexico (fig. 1). Agricultural, domestic, municipal, industrial, hydroelectric-power genera-tion, and recreation are the primary uses of river water in the valley. Most of the consumptive use of water from the river occurs downstream from Davis Dam...
Authors
Sandra J. Owen-Joyce
Results of ground-water, surface-water, and water-quality monitoring, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona; 1989-90 Results of ground-water, surface-water, and water-quality monitoring, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona; 1989-90
No abstract available.
Authors
J. P. Sottilare, D. J. Bills, J. G. Brown
Summary of ground-water conditions in Arizona 1985-86 Summary of ground-water conditions in Arizona 1985-86
No abstract available.
Authors
Richard P. Wilson
Low-flow sediment transport in the Colorado River Low-flow sediment transport in the Colorado River
In support of beach-stability research, bedload and suspended sediment were measured during a steady flow of 5,880 ft3/s and receding flows from 12,100 to 5,660 ft3/s in the Colorado River above National Canyon, near Supai, Arizona, October 7-12, 1989. During steady flows, 75 percent of the mean total-sediment discharge of 128 t/d was in suspension and about half the total-sediement load...
Authors
John R. Gray, Robert H. Webb, David W. Hyndman
Lower Colorado River Accounting System (LCRAS) computer program and documentation Lower Colorado River Accounting System (LCRAS) computer program and documentation
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Authors
B. K. von Allworden, Sandra J. Owen-Joyce, John D. Sandoval, Lee H. Raymond
Relation of sediment load and flood-plain formation to climatic variability, Paria River drainage basin, Utah and Arizona Relation of sediment load and flood-plain formation to climatic variability, Paria River drainage basin, Utah and Arizona
Suspended-sediment load, flow volume, and flood characteristics of the Paria River were analyzed to determine their relation to climate and flood-plain alluviation between 1923 and 1986. Flood-plain alluviation began about 1940 at a time of decreasing magnitude and frequency of floods in winter, summer, and fall. No floods with stages high enough to inundate the flood plain have occurred...
Authors
J.B. Graf, R. H. Webb, R. Hereford