![]() ![]() Large reservoirs were constructed onĮach of the three major headwater tributaries during the early 1960s.ĭaily sediment transport and water discharge records collected at gag. Water discharge has been recorded continuously at most of In 1990, daily samples of sediment transport were collectedĪt only two gaging stations in the basin with more than 10 years of Many of these records of sediment transport are nearly 40 years Rivers have been collected at gaging stations in the Colorado Riverīasin. ![]() Several of the longest daily sediment-transport records for North American Legal division of water among basin states. Quired because of significant variations in annual runoff, a semiaridĬlimate that necessitates irrigation to raise crops, and a need to meet the The relatively large reservoir storage capacity is re. Pacity greater than 30 billion m3 and numerous smaller reservoirs, isĪpproximately four times the mean annual runoff of approximately 17īillion m3/year. Total storage provided by two large reservoirs, each with a usable ca. States is one of the most extensively regulated drainages in the world. Geological SurveyĪBSTRACT: The Colorado River basin in the southwestern United Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.ĮDMUND D. Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book. ![]()
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