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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 Colorado River
Authors
Richard P. Wilson, Sandra J. Owen-Joyce
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 the lower
Authors
Sandra J. Owen-Joyce, Richard P. Wilson
Summary of ground-water conditions in Arizona, 1987-90
Annual ground-water withdrawals in Arizona were 2.9, 3.3, 3.6, and 3.4 million acre-feet for calendar years 1987. 1988, 1989, and 1990. The average annual ground-water withdrawal for Arizona from 1980-89 was 3.7 million acre-feet, which was the lowest average annual withdrawal for any decade since the 1940' s. Since 1947, annual ground-water withdrawals in Arizona were at the lowest rate in 1983 a
Authors
D.W. Anning, N.R. Duet
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 development of unste
Authors
W. B. Garrett, E.K. van de Vanter, J.B. Graf
Results of ground-water, surface-water, and water-quality monitoring, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona– 1991-92
No abstract available.
Authors
G. R. Littin
Determining the source of water pumped from wells along the lower Colorado River
No abstract available.
Authors
Richard P. Wilson, Sandra J. Owen-Joyce
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
Results of ground-water, surface-water, and water-quality monitoring, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona; 1990-91
No abstract available.
Authors
G. R. Littin
Summary of ground-water conditions in Arizona 1985-86
No abstract available.
Authors
Richard P. Wilson
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, where wa
Authors
Sandra J. Owen-Joyce
Lower Colorado River Accounting System (LCRAS) computer program and documentation
No abstract available.
Authors
B. K. von Allworden, Sandra J. Owen-Joyce, John D. Sandoval, Lee H. Raymond
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 was finer
Authors
John R. Gray, Robert H. Webb, David W. Hyndman