| Abstract: | Because of the increased demands for water in eastern Colorado, principally in the urbanizing Denver metropolitan area, increased diversions of water from Dillon Reservoir are planned. Estimates of end-of-month storage in Dillon Reservoir, assuming the reservoir was in place and 131,000 acre-feet of water were diverted from the reservoir each year, were reconstructed by mass balance for the 1931-77 water years. Based on the analysis, the annual maximum end-of-month drawdown below the elevation at full storage would have averaged 54 feet. The maximum end-of-month drawdown below the elevation at full storage would have been 171 feet. The mean-annual discharge-weighted dissolved-solids concentrations in the Colorado River near Glenwood Springs and Cameo, Colo., and Cisco, Utah, for the 1942-77 water years, were computed assuming an annual diversion of 131,000 acre-feet of water from Dillon Reservoir. The average increases in the dissolved-solids concentrations with the 131 ,000-acre-foot diversion were 15 to 16 milligrams per liter at the three sites. (Woodard-USGS) |
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| Citation Author: | Alley, William M.; Bauer, D. P.; Veenhuis, J. E.; Brennan, Robert |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | iv, 17 p. :ill., map ;26 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, |
| Citation Series: | Water-Resources Investigations Report |
| Citation Series Code: | WRI |
| Citation Series Number: | 79-2 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Hydrologic effects of annually diverting 131,000 acre-feet of water from Dillon Reservoir, central Colorado; 1979; WRI; 79-2; Alley, William M.; Bauer, D. P.; Veenhuis, J. E.; Brennan, Robert |
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| Text: | Hydrologic effects of annually diverting 131,000 acre-feet of water from Dillon Reservoir, central Colorado; 1979; WRI; 79-2; Alley, William M.; Bauer, D. P.; Veenhuis, J. E.; Brennan, Robert |
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| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/1979/0002/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, |
